Research award: Interactive information retrieval
Diane Kelly · Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2015
EDITOR'S SUMMARY Diane Kelly progressed from having no idea of information science as a field of inquiry to receiving the 2014 ASIS&T Research Award for her outstanding contributions to the field. Through an early library science course, Kelly met information science scholars and soon started her journey researching interactive information retrieval, search behavior, search interfaces and research methods. She became one of the “user study people” when few in the information retrieval community thought about the search process. Kelly appreciates starting her studies before Google's search box and blinking cursor became pervasive and realizing the wealth of ideas predating Google that are worthy of renewed investigation. She expressed concern that information seeking may become passive receipt of preformed information. In her further research, Kelly hopes to shed more light on the process of search and success metrics.