Position: Head of department
Research and Development Base:
Interface functionalities for interactive IR, in particular a cognitive and global approach to user and request model building and multi-functional representations of information sources in multimedia environments. LAN incorporating PCs, 486, NEXTstep ver. 3.2 and Windows NT
ver. 3.1. The department includes knowledge of informetrics,
scientometrics, statistics, knowledge representation, quality management,
quantitative and qualitative methods for user and use analysis as well as
systems evaluation.
Experience:
Experimental research on cognitive aspects and processes
concerned with user-intermediary-system interaction based on qualitative
psychological and sociological methods. The institution has large
experiences in IR systems design, interface design (operational systems)
as well as user and use surveys, incl. user-based evaluation and testing
methodology.
References:
[1] P. Ingwersen.
Information Retrieval Interaction.
London: Taylor Graham, 1992.
[2] P. Ingwersen.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM-Sigir Conf. on R&D in IR.
Polyrepresentation of information needs and semantic entities:
Elements of a cognitive theory for information retrieval interaction.
In P. Inwersen, pages 101--110, Dublin, 1994. Springer.
[2] P. Ingwersen and I. Wormell.
Ranganathan in the perspective of advanced information retrieval.
Libri, 42(3):184--201.
[3] P. Ingwersen and A. Mark Pejtersen.
User requirements - empirical research and information systems
design.
Information Technology and Information Use., pages p. 111--124,
1986.
[4] P. Ingwersen.
Search procedures in the library analysed from the cognitive point of
view.
Journal of Documentation, (38), 165 - 191.