Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments

by Iris Xie, Hong Xie

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.

351 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

Iris Xie is a Professor of Library and Information Science at UWM. She received her PhD from Rutgers University. Her research interests include interactive information retrieval, information retrieval system design and evaluation, digital libraries and human-computer interaction. She teaches mainly graduate level courses at SOIS, including L&I SCI 682 Digital Libraries, L&I SCI 571 Information Access and Retrieval and L&I SCI 970 Doctoral Seminar in Information Retrieval. She has a strong publishing record in the field of LIS including her recent book, Interactive information Retrieval in Digital Environments and numerous papers in high ranking journals. Simultaneously, she presented her research findings at national and international conferences. In addition, she also received several research grants from different agencies and organizations. In her leisure time, she loves reading, Zumba, and travel.