Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/S84798/01
Title:	User-centred interactive search with digital libraries
Principal Investigator:	Blandford, Professor A
Other Investigators:	Warwick, Professor C
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Project Partners:	University of Waikato
Department:	UCL Interaction Centre
Organisation:	UCL
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 August 2004	Ends:	31 January 2008	Value (£):	355,151
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Human-Computer Interactions
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Information Technologies
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Summary on Grant Application Form
Effective working with information is central to most knowledge-based activities. There is an ongoing shift towards digital provision of information, including through digital libraries. However, few knowledge workers have strong information seeking skills, and existing digital libraries provide poor support for acquiring such skills. One reason for poor support for skill development is that the focus of most past research has been on the improvement of system capabilities (through work in information retrieval). Mother is that there have been very few studies of how information seeking skills develop over time, and therefore of how this development can be supported. In parallel, although there is an established tradition of studying information seeking, little of this work has addressed how information seeking fits within the broader information task, such as writing, and how the detailed design of the system interface influences individual behaviour. This project takes a three-pronged approach: studying use in context with Humanities users (chosen as a group who typically have impoverished information seeking skills in digital environments); studying the development of expertise with information management students; and developing and testing novel interface features that support novice users and the development of expertise.
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Project URL:	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/research/projects/digital_libraries
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