User-Centred Systems of Information Retrieval in the digital era
Vishwa Mohan Vangari · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2007
A user-centred system of Information Retrieval is the order of the day. In the emerging digital information systems, there is a wide distance or gap between the information seeker or users of the information system and the information workers. When the digital information resources are available to distant information seeker, ensuring efficient and user-friendly or user-centred information retrieval systems is indispensable. In the Internet era, the online information systems endeavor to design and develop user-centred retrieval systems. But, these systems fail to satisfy most of the important norms of the information retrieval systems. Finally, they also prove to be user-unfriendly. The paper attempts to assess the feasibilities of designing and developing user-centred systems. It is quite clear that the nature, approach, level of knowledge, etc. of the users of information retrieval systems would vary very widely. In view of this the study attempts to find the diversity of user approach in a cross section of academics. And measure the amount of diversity and find the solutions for unification of the diverse user approach.