A behavioral approach to information retrieval system design
Journal of Documentation
Information retrieval interaction
Information retrieval interaction
ASIS '92 Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting on Celebrating change : information management on the move: information management on the move
Towards a cognitive theory of information accessing: an empirical study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Multiple search sessions model of end-user behavior: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The dilemma of measurement in information retrieval research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
Interaction in information retrieval: selection and effectiveness of search terms
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Exploring models of information behaviour: the 'Uncertainty' Project
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Empirical studies of end-user information searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information seeking and mediated searching study. Part 3: successive searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information seeking and mediated searching. Part 4: cognitive styles in information seeking
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Validation of a model of information seeking over multiple search sessions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Internetworking of factors affecting successive searches over multiple episodes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Introduction: A perspective on Web Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval
Factors affecting assigned information problem ordering during web search: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Cost and benefit analysis of mediated enterprise search
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Search advertising placement strategy: Exploring the efficacy of the conventional wisdom
Information and Management
Information searching behavior: between two principles
CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
Evaluation of a personalized digital library based on cognitive styles: Adaptivity vs. adaptability
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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Our project has investigated the processes of mediated information retrieval (IR) searching during human information-seeking processes to characterize aspects of this process, including information seekers' changing situational contexts; information problems; uncertainty reduction; successive searching, cognitive styles; and cognitive and affective states. The research has involved observational, longitudinal data collection in the United States and United Kingdom. Three questionnaires were used for pre- and postsearch interviews: reference interview, information seeker postsearch, and search intermediary postsearch questionnaires. In addition, the Sheffield team employed a fourth set of instruments in a follow-up interview some 2 months after the search. A total of 198 information seekers participated in a mediated on-line search with a professional intermediary using the Dialog Information Service. Each mediated search process was audio taped and search transaction log recorded. The findings are presented in four parts. Part I presents the background, theoretical framework, models, and research design used during the research. Part II is devoted to exploring changes in information seekers' uncertainty during the mediated process. Part III provides results related to successive searching. Part IV reports findings related to cognitive styles, individual differences, age and gender. Additional articles that discuss further findings from this complex research project, including: (1) an integrated model of information seeking and searching, (2) assessment of mediated searching, and (3) intermediary-information seeker communication, are in preparation and will be published separately.