This project involves a) user studies intended to understand the kind of information seeking strategies people follow over the course of a single information seeking episode and b) design and implementation of Information Retrieval (IR) systems that would support such strategies (see Project overview). This project has been funded by a three year grant from the phase III of the Tipster project.

Project Overview: A brief description of the purpose and goal of this project.

Documents: an archive of all the documents generated by our project (e.g. Proposal, Progress Reports, Working Papers, Technical Reports, Publications)

Related Papers: Papers written by members of the team and others, which are related to our research concerns but not necessarily written for the project

People: The members of the project

Hot Links: Other interesting sites which are related to our research project (e.g. Tipster , ZPRISE 2.0 , Information Retrieval resources , etc)

Feedback: The way to contact us

Development: resources relevant to our development efforts. Includes information about visual development tools, tipster compliant tool sets, etc.

Technical Support: information about our systems, computers, etc. (e.g. backups, etc.)