180 Day 8 Notes

Feb 15, 2000

 

One Minute Papers

Big Point

Browsing as a set of info seeking strategies

Hard to measure/study browsing behavior

Browsing is not a linear process

 

Questions

Browsing is not ‘lower cognitive load’ (micro vs macro level)

How will search engines evolve?

Are OPACs with hyperlinks heavily used by people?

Does the medium influence info seeking styles?

What IDL prototypes have been done?

When to browse? When to use analytic search?

 

2 Project commitments

 

3. Document structure

   What can we learn from “shape”? structure?  Are there semantics here?

 

5. The one-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?