Centre for Interactive Systems Research
Department of Information Science
What we do:
The Centre was established in 1987 and is concerned with the design and
evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems and the
investigation of human information seeking behaviour. Its research
activities contributed to the 5A rating as a centre of excellence awarded
to the Department of Information Science in the last research assessment
of the Higher Education Funding Council. The scope of the research
encompasses different applications:
- The design, implementation, testing and operational evaluation of
systems incorporating novel retrieval methods including term weighting,
ranking, relevance feedback, query expansion, passage retrieval and
thesaurus navigation.
- Investigations into user information seeking behaviour: cognitive
aspects, human computer interaction for retrieval and user interface
design.
- Evaluation methodologies for interactive systems: user centred
methods and system performance measures, transaction logging facilities
and analysis.
- Distributed client-server architectures and communication protocols
for networked information retrieval systems.
- Knowledge representation and knowledge-based structures for retrieval
and thesaural navigation.
- Computer applications for Humanities research.
Funding:
Research projects have been funded principally by the British Library as
well as by the Higher Education Funding Council, The Wellcome Trust, The
Pilgrim Trust and the European Community. The Centre has also attracted
some funding from commercial companies and undertakes consultancy work.
Funded Projects:
Where we are:
The Research Centre is part of the
Dept. of Information Science
in the
School of Informatics
at City University, and comprises academics and full- and part-time research
staff, as well as PhD. students. The research staff are based in A206, which
is near the St John Street entrance to the University.
External call phone number of the departmental office: +44 0171 447 8000
extn.8382
Phone number of the fax machine: +44 0171 477 8584
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