ECIR 04
Gary Marchionini, UNC-Chapel Hill
Trend 2: Include People
•Technical advances and technical literacy allows us to leverage information seeker intelligence
•Rather than sole dependence on matching algorithms, focus on flow of representations and actions in situ as people think with these new tools and information resources
•Web has legitimized browsing as human-controlled information seeking
•To leverage human intelligence and effort, people must assume responsibilities: beyond the two-word, single query