Study of interactive feedback during mediated information retrieval

✍ Scribed by Spink, Amanda

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 153 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199705)48:5<382::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

Feedback is a fundamental concept within the physical

Feedback has also been a fundamental concept and the social sciences with its modern origins drawn throughout the history and development of cybernetics.

from cybernetics. Information science is exploring feed-

The concept of feedback have evolved from Wiener's back as a key component in the interactive model of (1948, 1950/1954, 1953) cybernetic feedback model em-

information retrieval (IR). This article reports results

phasizing the properties of the negative (or deviationfrom a study exploring the information retrieval and types of interactive feedback during mediated IR. Five counteracting) feedback based on a steady state process.

different types of interactive feedback were identified, Maruyama's (1963Maruyama's ( , 1968) ) social feedback model extending the interactive IR model to include relevance, emerged later to emphasize the attributes of both positive magnitude, and strategy interactive feedback. Implica-(or deviation-amplifying) and negative feedback. The tions for further research investigating the nature and properties of feedback have been extensively explored in models of interactive feedback in information retrieval are discussed.