The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and
retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating
research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their
separate and narrow paths and construct a new avenue of research.
An essential direction for this avenue is context as given in the
subtitle Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in
Context. Other essential themes in the book include:
IS&R research models, frameworks and theories; search and
works tasks and situations in context; interaction between humans
and machines; information acquisition, relevance and information
use; research design and methodology based on a structured set of
explicit variables - all set into the holistic cognitive approach.
The present monograph invites the reader into a construction
project - there is much research to do for a contextual
understanding of IS&R.
The Turn represents a wide-ranging perspective of IS&R by
providing a novel unique research framework, covering both
individual and social aspects of information behavior, including
the generation, searching, retrieval and use of information.
Regarding traditional laboratory information retrieval research,
the monograph proposes the extension of research toward actors,
search and work tasks, IR interaction and utility of information.
Regarding traditional information seeking research, it proposes the
extension toward information access technology and work task
contexts.
The Turn is the first synthesis of research in the broad area of
IS&R ranging from systems oriented laboratory IR research to
social science oriented information seeking studies.
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