Hi Bjorn, There is an interesting-looking paper I just dug up last night that I'd forgot I had (thus I haven't read it yet) called "Information Foraging" by Peter Pirolli and Stuart K. Card. I recognize the latter from Information Visualization stuff.
The first sentence from the abstract is: "Information Foraging Theory is an approach to understanding how strategies and technologies for information seeking, gath- ering, and consuption are adapted to the flux of information in the environment." It's chunky, at 84 pages, with some math too, so hopefully it is applicable. I could not find Card's web page, but here is Pirolli's and another link where you can find the report: http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/pirolli/pirolli.html http://www2.parc.com/istl/groups/uir/publications/index.html Good luck! /Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Bjorn Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PPIG discuss: Searching for search strategies [ Sorry, I could not resist the meta-level subject line. ] I am looking for references about how humans collect information, especially when starting from (near-)scratch. That is, how do we determine where to look, how do we look, and how do we evaluate the relevance of the information. So far, I have mainly been looking at the Decision-Making literature, but they generally assume that you use the available information to search for a solution. I am more interested in how the information is obtained. To put this request into context, I am investigating the possibility of a more rigid foundation for debugging techniques than today's ad hoc approaches. - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe discuss To join the announcements list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe announce To receive a help file, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] help This list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ If you have any problems or questions, please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe discuss To join the announcements list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe announce To receive a help file, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] help This list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ If you have any problems or questions, please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
