[edtech] [Fwd: [HCI Seminar] TALK: Gary Marchionini, Friday, 11/12, 1:30PM]

[Jean Foster]

FYI: This talk about new ideas for Human Computer Information Retrieval
may be of interest to some of you.

-jean-
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Subject: [HCI Seminar] TALK: Gary Marchionini, Friday, 11/12, 1:30PM
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Human Computer Information Retrieval

Gary Marchionini
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday, November 12, 2004
1:30PM (refreshments at 1:15PM)
Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)

Abstract:

The information retrieval (IR) research community has made remarkable 
progress over the past half century, leveraging the power of computers to 
move is from card catalogs to the World Wide Web.  Even with today's 
powerful machine learning techniques, we may be reaching the limits of how 
much we can improve the precision-recall curve toward optimality.  This 
talk will argue that the only hope of significantly improving the overall 
information retrieval experience is to more seriously address the roles 
and behaviors of human information seekers.  Some of this challenge will 
fall to the culture (schools, the marketplace, the installed base of IR 
experience), but a more timely attack can be made by creating systems that 
actively engage the information seeker in the process through highly 
interactive user interfaces.  In essence, this argues for tightly coupled, 
human-centered cooperation between people and systems.

Bio:

Gary Marchionini, is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Information Science 
in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His Ph.D. is from Wayne State University 
in mathematics education with an emphasis on educational computing. His 
research interests are in human information interaction, digital 
libraries, information retrieval, digital government and information 
technology policy. He has had grants or contracts from the National 
Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Council on Library 
Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, the 
Kellogg Foundation, and NASA, among others.  He was the Conference Chair 
for ACM Digital Library '96 Conference and program chair for ACM-IEEE 
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2002 and co-program chair for the 
ACM SIGIR Conference in 2005.  He is editor-in-chief for the ACM 
Transactions on Information Systems and serves on the editorial boards of 
a dozen scholarly journals.  He has published more than one hundred 
articles, chapters, and conference papers in the information science, 
computer science, and education literatures.  He founded the Interaction 
Design Laboratory at UNC-CH.

Email: march at ils.unc.edu

WWW: www.ils.unc.edu/~march

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