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While research on the notion of relevance has a long and rich history in information retrieval for textual documents, formal considerations of relevance concepts in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) remain scarce. We discuss the application of Saracevic's stratified model of relevance interactions to the music information domain. This model offers a tool for deliberation on the development of user‐oriented...
This ongoing study employs citation context analysis to examine the citation functions in social sciences and humanities (SS&H) disciplines. The analyses focus on the uses of organic/perfunctory citations and confirmative/negational citations. In this poster, we will present the preliminary findings from the completed analysis on Chinese history research papers. Chinese history authors used a...
Entity reconciliation—linking names or terms to identifiers in external datasets—is a popular method of adding standardized structured data to loosely structured documents. Most approaches to entity reconciliation rely on remote web services, requiring network access during the reconciliation process. For use cases that rely on a “human in the loop” (reconciling entities during the authoring process),...
With electronic book (ebook) sales and readership rising, are ebooks positioned to replace print books? This study examines the preference for ebooks and print books in the contexts of reading purpose, reading situation, and contextual variables such as age, gender, education level, race/ethnicity, income, community type, and Internet use. Additionally, this study aims to identify factors that contribute...
In an increasingly visually‐oriented world, researchers within and beyond LIS can benefit from exploring, developing and applying creative methods for data collection and research participant engagement. Participatory, arts‐involved methods can complement more traditional elicitation techniques, generating rich data that allows researchers to explore participant experiences with socially‐ and culturally‐constructed...
This study explored the usability and accessibility of library websites for visually impaired users with the objectives of identifying the Web‐browsing needs of those who use screen readers to access and browse the Web and applying this knowledge to the practice of accessible website design. Data were collected in a usability test setting with six blind users who were asked to navigate three different...
Both user engagement and system support play important roles in applying search tactics. To apply search tactics in the information retrieval (IR) processes, users engage intellectually with the system, while the system assists them by providing different system features. By analyzing 63 subjects' information searching diaries and questionnaires, the authors identified various types of user engagement...
This study investigates the roles and usefulness of search characteristics and functionalities for image retrieval in a bilingual context. Using a questionnaire and semi‐structured interviews, data were collected from English and French speaking participants to provide an understanding of how real users search for images online. The results suggested that the image search process still presents difficulties...
Social question answering (SQA) services are a popular way for people to exchange information. Unfortunately, the quality of information exchanged can be variable and few studies focus on the quality of questions asked. To address this, we explored the influence of textual features on question quality based on 126 questions taken from five different categories of Yahoo! Answers labeled as “Bad” by...
Misinformation is common on social media. This causes misunderstanding and compromises the credibility of the medium. What motivates individuals to share inaccurate information? Are there individual differences? This study surveyed 171 university students on 16 motivations. Potential differences in motivations by gender and the Big Five personality traits were tested with multiple regression. The...
Online question answering (Q&A) provides a popular platform for people to interact with information online, both by asking and answering questions. Although previous studies have focused on factors that motivate answerers, these studies have not considered that questions offering potential rewards to answerers might provide extrinsic motivation to answer it. In the current study, we collected...
The verification of an online conversation partner's identity is a challenge due to the lack of verbal and visual cues in computer‐mediated communication. People must constantly assess the identity of whomever they are communicating with based on limited interaction. This poster describes an empirical study that identifies how people attribute gender and detects gender deception in online text‐based...
Given the rapidly changing economics of scholarly communication in the digital age, the importance of accurate, specific data on the resource flows within this realm has become increasingly important. Both the producers and the collectors of scholarly information require accurate information in order to nimbly navigate their changing roles in advancing the progress of knowledge. Two key actors in...
The metaphor of knowledge as a product is found throughout contemporary discourse. It can be argued that sometimes product, and at other times process, will be a good, useful, or even the only way something can be viewed. But when one looks at process, one ignores product; and vice versa. This is a fundamental human problem, not an oversight, and as a metaphor echoes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle...
Many Internet users are seeking health information online, encountering significant privacy risks in the process. Historically, these risks are associated with personally identifiable information, but behavioural tracking presents a new and increasing threat to privacy. In this paper, we analyze the disclosure, in a set of website privacy policies, of the collection of non‐personally identifiable...
Searching large collections of digitized books is a relatively new area in information‐seeking and retrieval research, made possible by initiatives such as Google Books and the HathiTrust Digital Library. The availability of large full‐text book collections is transforming how users search and interact with information in books, but the characteristics of these changes are unknown. This paper aims...
This study investigates how students learn to collaborate in a guided discovery‐based program of game design learning, and how e‐learning systems and environmental supports afford collaboration. We address how students self‐initiate and strategize collaborative practices to achieve a project‐based learning goal, and how they interact with peers, teachers, and technology to develop a shared understanding...
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That's funny …’
— Isaac Asimov
From the discovery of penicillin and x‐rays to the development of many of today's chemotherapy agents, serendipitous findings tangential to the researcher's intended purpose, those “That's funny …” moments, have greatly impacted the health and well‐being of society...
Task design in interactive information retrieval (IIR) research, including IIR systems evaluation and IIR behavior research, is critical. Currently, a simple search request and a simulated work task situation design are used most widely, especially the latter. This paper attempts to examine the possible differences between simulated and real work task situations in a digital library evaluation, with...
This article investigates the online information practices of persons grieving and mourning the death of another via Facebook through an examination of how, or if, these practices and Facebook's terms of use policies have implications for those in mourning and/or the memory of the deceased. To explore these questions the researchers contrasted traditional publicly recorded asynchronous modes of grieving...
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