III-Small: Result Space Support for Personal and Group Information Seeking Over Time

这项研究的目标是开发技术和系统，帮助人们解决复杂的、一般的或持续的信息问题，当信息寻找发生在多个间隔或与他人合作时。方法是首先研究人们在使用多个系统的过程中如何查找信息和解释搜索结果，重点是管理和可选地共享结果集和项。其次，基于这些初步调查，设计了支持动态搜索和可视化的系统，可以作为个人信息管理器和组信息管理器。第三，这些工具在现场和实验室环境中进行评估。这项研究与主动学习的教育理论有关，并在几个月的时间里深入研究大学生和研究团队的信息需求。学生通过参与信息检索系统的设计和评估，在这个项目中发挥了积极的作用。这项研究的结果将为支持全方位复杂信息搜索需求的下一代系统的设计者提供指导。该项目还提供了特定的开源工具，人们可以很容易地将其作为流行网页浏览软件的插件。将广泛传播出版物、软件和其他信息项目，包括通过项目网站（http://www.ils.unc.edu/infoseek/）。因此，这项工作将对学校、家庭、办公室和研究实验室的基于互联网的信息活动产生广泛的影响。

The goal of this research is to develop techniques and systems that help people solve information problems that are complex, general, or ongoing and when information seeking takes place over multiple intervals or in collaboration with other people. The approach is to first study how people seek information and interpret results of searches as they use multiple systems over time and in collaboration with emphasis given to managing and optionally sharing result sets and items. Second, based on these initial investigations, systems are designed that support dynamic search and visualization and can serve both as a personal information manager and a group information manager. Third, these tools are evaluated in field and laboratory settings. The research is linked to educational theories of active learning and is embedded in university student and research team information needs over multiple months. Students play an active role in this project by participating in the design and evaluation of the information seeking systems.The results of this research will provide guidance for designers of the next generation of systems that support a full range of complex information seeking needs. The project also contributes specific open source tools that people can easily adopt as plug-ins to popular web browsing software. Publications, software and other information items will be widely disseminated, including via the project Web site (http://www.ils.unc.edu/infoseek/). This work will thus have broad impact on Internet-based information activities in schools, homes, offices, and research laboratories.