Psychology of Information Access: Syllabus
W Aug. 21 Introduction
W Aug. 28 What is information?
Lucky, R. W. Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp 2-59.
Review memory chapters from Anderson's Cognitive Psychology
W Sept. 4 Human memory models
Landauer, T. K. (1986). How much do people remember? Some estimates of the quantity of learned information in Long term-memory. Cognitive Science, 10, 477-493.
Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1989). Memory models, text processing, and cue-dependent retrieval. In (H. L. Roediger & F.. I. M. Craick, Eds.), Varieties of Memory and Consciousness: Essays in Honour of Endel Tulving. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Alex
Read excerpts from: Foltz, P. W. (1991). Human Memory Retrieval and Computer Information Retrieval: Similar approaches to Similar Problems. University of Colorado, Institute of Cognitive Science, Technical Report # 91-3.
W Sept. 11 The Rational approach to Human memory, Hybrid models
Anderson, J. R. & Schooler, L, J. (1991). Reflections of the environment in memory. Psychological Science, 2, 6, 396-408. Xia
Jones, W. P. (1986) On the applied use of human memory models: the memory extender personal filing system. Int. J. Man-Machine Studies, 25, 191-228. Mark
W Sept. 18 How good are humans at retrieving external information?
Blair & Maron (1985). An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system. Communications of the ACM. 28,3. 289-299. Rainer
Borgman (1986). The user's mental model of an information retrieval system: an experiment on a prototype online catalog. Int. J. Man-Machine Studies,, 24, 47-64 Mohammed
W Sept. 25 Retrieval systems
Belkin & Croft (1987) Retrieval Techniques Xia
Harter, S. P. (1992). Psychological Relevance and Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 43(9), 602-615. Rainer
W Oct. 2 Latent Semantic Analyses
Deerwester, S., Dumais, S. T., Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K., & Harshman, R. (1990). Indexing by latent semantic analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 41(6), 391-407. Peter
Landauer & Dumais (in press) A solution to Plato's problem: The Latent semantic analysis theory of acquisistion, induction representation of knowledge. Psychological Review. Peter
W Oct. 9 Other ways for humans to indicate what they want
Relevance feedback: Salton & McGill Grant
Ogden, W. C., & Bernick, P. (1996) Using Natural language interfaces. In M. Helander (ed.) Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Elsevier Science Publishers. Bill
W Oct. 16 Modeling user information needs: Information filtering and "Intelligent" Agents
Content-based filtering: Foltz, P. W. & Dumais, S. T. (1992). Personalized information delivery: An analysis of information filtering methods. Communications of the ACM, 35(12), 51-60. Peter
Social-based filtering Shardanand & Maes (1995) Social Information Filtering: Algorithims for automating "word of mouth" Megan
W Oct. 23 Social information access
Communication: The flow of information. Ch. 9 in Katz & Kahn, The Social Psychology of Organizations Megan
Kraut, R. E., Egido, C., & Galegher, J. (1990) Patterns of contact and communications in scientific research collaboration. In J. Gaelgher, R. E. Kraut, C. Egido (Eds.) Intellectual Teamwork: Socaial and Technological foundations of cooperative work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Grant
W Oct. 30 Group communications, CSCW
Stasser, G. (1992). Pooling of unshared information during group discussion. In S. Worchel, W. Wood & J. A. Simpson (Eds.) Group Process and Productivity. London: Sage Publications. Mohammed
Bikson, T. K. & Eveland, J. D. (1990). The interplay of work group structures and computer support. In J. Galegher, R. E. Kraut, C. Egido (Eds.) Intellectual Teamwork: Socaial and Technological foundations of cooperative work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Krisela
W Nov. 6 No class
W Nov. 13 hypertext, the mind ,and the web
Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. Atlantic Monthly(July), 101-108.
Marchionini (19??) Mark
W Nov. 20 Controversies over information
Is online information really useful? Stoll, C. (1995) Silicon Snake Oil: Second thoughts on the information highway New York: Doubleday. Alex
Who owns information Samuelson, P. (1994). Copyright's fair use doctrine and digital data. Communications of the ACM, 37,1, 21-27.
W Nov. 27 Thanksgiving: No class
W Dec. 4 Final project presentations