New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spink, Amanda (Editor), Cole, Charles (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 19
• Subjects: Computer science.; Library science.; Social sciences.; Human geography.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.; Human Geography.; Library Science.; Social Sciences, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.

New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval presents an exciting new direction for research into cognitive oriented information retrieval (IR) research, a direction based on an analysis of the user’s problem situation and cognitive behavior when using the IR system. This contrasts with the cur...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval
• CIR Concepts
• Interactive Information Retrieval: Bringing the User to a Selection State
• Cognitive Overlaps along the Polyrepresentation Continuum
• Integration Approaches to Relevance
• New Cognitive Directions
• CIR Processes
• A Multitasking Framework for Cognitive Information Retrieval
• Explanation in Information Seeking and Retrieval
• Towards an Alternative Information Retrieval System for Children
• CIR Techniques
• Implicit Feedback: Using Behavior to Infer Relevance
• Educational Knowledge Domain Visualizations: Tools to Navigate, Understand, and Internalize the Structure of Scholarly Knowledge and Expertise
• Learning and Training to Search
• Conclusions
• Conclusion and Further Research.