[Sigia-l] IA research?

[Peter VanDijck]

Great links, thanks Victor! I'm diving in - will report back.
Peter

Victor Lombardi wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> =====
> Personal: http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/
> Professional: http://aifia.org/
> 
> 
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