1/06/2012

Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna: Conversations on Modeling Human Search Abilities Review

Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna: Conversations on Modeling Human Search Abilities
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A quirky but very useful and well-written book about the information search process and its analogs in the world of natural selection and evolutionary adaptation. There are essays about submarine chasing and skip tracing by Brian O'Connor -- not the usual dry stuff of academic texts on human search behavior. At the same time, there is a strong (and well-cited) intellectual underpinning to everything here. The editors call their work "intellectual hopscotch" -- the same metaphor could apply to the human search behavior they describe. This is a worthwhile and compelling book.

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Serves as the focal concept in a search for a truly functional document access system, enabling us to stand back from the present, to look into the shadows of our current designs, marvel at the breadth of human search capabilities, recognize frailties in both humans and systems, and ask new questions as we grapple with navigating our information environment.

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