Peter Ingwersen: Frameworks for IR Research

Location

UCLA School of Law, Room 1357
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States
Join us as Professor Peter Ingwersen gives his talk on the Laboratory IR tradition (the Cranfield Framework) in light of the Integrated Cognitive IR Research Framework. These frameworks are analyzed in relation to several interactive IR models. The Integrated Cognitive IR Framework will be discussed, in particular with respect to central variables and functionality. 
 
Each year, the Los Angeles Chapter of American Society for Information Science and Technology presents its Contributions to Information Science Award (CISTA) to one or more individuals who have made significant contribution to the field. Recipients are those individuals who are recognized by their colleagues as exceptional leaders whose dedication, commitment and vision inspire others, or whose singular contribution to the field of information science has been particularly significant. 

The presentation analyses Information Retrieval in the context of Information Behavior and Information Seeking, and discusses the Laboratory IR tradition (the Cranfield Framework) in light of the Integrated Cognitive IR Research Framework, as proposed by Ingwersen & Jarvelin (Springer, 2005). The frameworks are analyzed in relation to interactive IR models, such as the contextual Bystrom/Jarvelin flow chart model (1995), the stratified Saracevic model (1996), the Wang/Soergel relevance assessment model (1998) and the task-based Vakkari model (2002). The Integrated Cognitive IR Framework is discussed, in particular with respect to central variables and functionality.

Event Details
Date and Time: 
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
UCLA School of Law, Room 1357
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States
Directions and Parking: 

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Program Information

Speaker Information: 

Peter Ingwersen, Full Professor, Royal School of LIS, Denmark. Ph.D. in 1991 from Copenhagen Business School. Visiting scholar at the European Space Agency, Italy, 1980-84. Affiliate Professor at Rutgers University, USA, 1987, the Dept. of Information Studies, Tampere University, Finland, 1999-2002, and Abo Academy, Finland, 1998-. Research areas: Interactive IR; IR in Context; Evaluation methods for work task-based IR; Informetrics-Scientometrics & Webometrics.

He organized the 1992 ACM-SIGIR Conference in Denmark and served as PC Chair 1995 and 2000. He co-initiated the CoLIS conferences and chaired its 2nd meeting (1996) and organized with Kalervo Jarvelin the SIGIR Workshop IR in Context (2004 & 05), which extended into the 1st International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IiiX), co-Chaired by Peter in 2006. He has served as invited lecturer and key-note at many doctoral fora, and at ISSI, LIDA and CoLIS conferences, as well as ESSIR and NORSLIS research schools 1998-2008.

He has published several highly cited research monographs, and more than 90 journal articles and conference papers, in addition to editing work. Among his academic awards are the ASIS&T Distinguished Research Award in 2003 and the Derek de Solla Price Medal for his informetric and webometric research awarded 2005 by the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics. In 2007 he received the ASIS&T Best Teacher Award of Information Science and in 2009 he gave the Lazarov Memorial Lecture, UTK. He is member of the International Advisory Board of ICALIS, Wuhan University, China, and the editorial boards of the international journals JASIST, IPM, Scientometrics, and Journal of Informetrics as well as national journals in several countries.