This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the concept of credibility and
its areas of application relevant to information science and technology, encompassing …

All is flux.—Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus (about 369 BC) Relevance is a, if not
even the, key notion in information science in general and information retrieval in particular …

This paper provides overview and instruction regarding the evaluation of interactive
information retrieval systems with users. The primary goal of this article is to catalog and …

In general, information practices are viewed as tools that people use to further their everyday
projects. Essentially, people's information practices draw on their stocks of knowledge that …

Little of the work on online credibility assessment has considered how the information-
seeking process figures into the final evaluation of content people encounter. Using unique …

A fresh research approach that bridges the study of human information interaction and the
design of information systems. Human information interaction (HII) is an emerging area of …

Google News and other newsbots have automated the process of news selection, providing
Internet users with a virtually limitless array of news and public information dynamically …

Relevance is the most important factor to assure users' satisfaction in search and the
success of a search engine heavily depends on its performance on relevance. It has been …

Web searching for complex information requires to appropriately evaluating diverse sources
of information. Information science studies identified different criteria applied by searchers to …

Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers
such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for most of the evaluation …