Comments on: The Psychology of Search: Chapter Three http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/08/26/the-psychology-of-search-chapter-three/ The usability blog of John S. Rhodes Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:54:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Kelly Green http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/08/26/the-psychology-of-search-chapter-three/#comment-11062 Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:50:13 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/08/26/the-psychology-of-search-chapter-three/#comment-11062 I too am facinated by the "real world" implications of HCI upon user interfaces and search & retrieval. We have to understand the user if we want to provide *useful* tools for them. Here are a few resources that might be of interest to you: nformation Seeking Behavior in New Searching Environments. Colleen Cool, Soyeon Park, Nicholas Belkin, Jurgen Koenemann and Kwong Bor Ng http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~sypark/colis.html THE DERIVATION OF A “SITUATIONAL”INFORMATION SEEKING AND USE PROCESS MODEL IN THE WORKPLACE: EMPLOYING SENSE-MAKING. Wai-Yi Bonnie Cheuk http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/meet/1999/meet99cheuk.html writes about the need to consider individual's attributes rather than "user as groups" There were a series of presentations at ASIS&T 2004 by SIG USE that covered affect and search behavior. You can see the abstracts: Measuring the Affective Information Environment of Web Searchers Diane Nahl, nahl@hawaii.edu http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/61.html Emotional Design: The Influential Role of Affect in Information Behavior (SIG USE). Dania Bilal, dania@utk.edu Allison Druin, allisond@umiacs.umd.edu Sanda Erdelez, sanda@missouri.edu Karen Fisher, fisher@u.washington.edu Diane Nahl, nahl@hawaii.edu http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/60.html To obtain additional information, you will need to contact the speakers. I too am facinated by the “real world” implications of HCI upon user interfaces and search & retrieval. We have to understand the user if we want to provide *useful* tools for them.

Here are a few resources that might be of interest to you:
nformation Seeking Behavior in New Searching Environments. Colleen Cool, Soyeon Park, Nicholas Belkin, Jurgen Koenemann and Kwong Bor Ng
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~sypark/colis.html

THE DERIVATION OF A “SITUATIONAL”INFORMATION SEEKING AND USE PROCESS MODEL
IN THE WORKPLACE: EMPLOYING SENSE-MAKING. Wai-Yi Bonnie Cheuk
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/meet/1999/meet99cheuk.html writes about the need to consider individual’s attributes rather than “user as groups”

There were a series of presentations at ASIS&T 2004 by SIG USE that covered affect and search behavior. You can see the abstracts:
Measuring the Affective Information Environment of Web Searchers
Diane Nahl, nahl@hawaii.edu
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/61.html

Emotional Design: The Influential Role of Affect in Information Behavior (SIG USE). Dania Bilal, dania@utk.edu Allison Druin, allisond@umiacs.umd.edu Sanda Erdelez, sanda@missouri.edu Karen Fisher, fisher@u.washington.edu Diane Nahl, nahl@hawaii.edu

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/abstracts/60.html

To obtain additional information, you will need to contact the speakers.

]]> by: AI3 - Adaptive Information::: » Blog Archive » Psychology of Search, Harvesting and Purposeful Search http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/08/26/the-psychology-of-search-chapter-three/#comment-11051 Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:30:31 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2005/08/26/the-psychology-of-search-chapter-three/#comment-11051 [...] The Psychology of Search:  Chapter 3 The summary is that search is dominated by the human memory framework of recognition. Search engines work these days because they capitalize on our pattern matching skills and recognition abilities, no doubt about it. [...] […] The Psychology of Search:  Chapter 3 The summary is that search is dominated by the human memory framework of recognition. Search engines work these days because they capitalize on our pattern matching skills and recognition abilities, no doubt about it. […]

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