[Asis-l] Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments

[Elizabeth Myers]

Introducing the latest release from IGI Global:

Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments 
ISBN: 978-1-59904-240-4; 379 pp; April 2008
Published under the imprint IGI Publishing
http://www.igi-global.com/books/details.asp?id=7642

Authored by: Iris Xie; University of Wisconsin, USA

DESCRIPTION
The emergence of the Internet allows millions of people to use a variety of
electronic information retrieval systems, such as: digital libraries, Web
search engines, online databases, and online public access catalogs.
Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments provides
theoretical framework in understanding the nature of information retrieval,
and offers implications for the design and evolution of interactive
information retrieval systems.

Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments includes the
integration of existing frameworks on user-oriented information retrieval
systems across multiple disciplines; the comprehensive review of empirical
studies of interactive information retrieval systems for different types of
users, tasks, and subtasks; and the discussion of how to evaluate
interactive information retrieval systems. Researchers, designers, teachers,
scholars, and professionals will gain the foundation for new research on
this subject matter, and guidance to evaluate new information retrieval
systems for the general public as well as for specific user groups.

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"This book develops a theoretical framework for information retrieval (IR)
interaction and discusses its implications in the design and evaluation of
IR systems in the digital age."
- Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin, USA 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I: User-Oriented IR Research Approaches 
Chapter II: Interactive IR in OPAC Environments 
Chapter III: Interactive IR in Online Database Environments 
Chapter IV: Interactive IR in Web Search Engine Environments 
Chapter V: Interactive IR in Digital Library Environments 
Chapter VI: TREC and Interactive Track Environments 
Chapter VII: Interactive IR Models 
Chapter VIII: Interactive IR Framework 
Chapter IX: Illustration and Validation of the Interactive IR Framework 
Chapter X: Implications of the Planned-Situational Interactive IR Model 
Chapter XI: Conclusions and Future Directions

For more information about Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital
Environments, you can view the title information sheet at
http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/pdf/xie.pdf. You can also view the first
chapter of the publication at
http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/excerpts/XieExc.pdf.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Iris Xie is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests and expertise
focus on information seeking and retrieving, in particular interactive
information retrieval between users and IR systems and its implications for
the design and evaluation of a variety of IR systems in the digital age. Dr.
Xie won the dissertation award from the Association for Library and
Information Science Education (ALISE) in 1999. She is the principal
investigator on many research grants awarded by different agencies, which
include the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Online Computer
Library Center (OCLC), ALISE, etc. She has a strong record in publishing
refereed articles and presenting at international conferences in the field
of library and information science.

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your librarian.
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