This paper reports on an attempt to measure the performance of users of
interactive information retrieval systems. The subjects studied were end
users of the information who were doing their own interactive searches.
The measures consist of a set of computerized diagnostic procedures applied
to the sequences of commands used in querying the database. These
diagnostics trigger various kinds of messages to the user. Presumably, the
frequency with which a diagnostic is triggered is an index of the difficulties
which the user may be having in doing a search. Although the utility to the
user of the information retrieved is assumed to be the best overall measure
of search outcome, it is the manner of using the system, not the search
outcome, which is the focus of this report.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (17th : 1980)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1112
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
The work reported here was sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, Division of Information Science and Technology, under Grant No. DSI 77-26524.
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