[Sigia-l] IA research?

[Victor Lombardi]

Peter asked, "Anyone seen any new academic-quality
research related to IA lately?"

If you want an overview, check out HFI's Key Findings:
<http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/dec03.asp>

If you want to dive in, use Citeseer:
<http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/>


We don't see a lot of research around here because 1)
it's hard to do well, 2) for researchers, there's no
glory in dealing with practitioners, and 3)
practitioners don't have the time or training to do
research.

I tried bucking that trend last year, dove into the
research on navigation, and came up with some useful
(at least to me) results:
<http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/ia/iasummit2004/NavigationResearch.pdf>

That took a lot of time; only 20% of the papers that
seemed applicable to my goal actually were. But it was
worth it: some decisions that I made used to make
based on guesses or convention I now make based on
research findings and come closer to an effective
design before testing.


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