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Schamber, Linda; Bateman, Judy – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996
Presents preliminary findings of a project intended to develop a user-validated measurement instrument based on users' relevance criteria. Two validation tests revealed conceptual and methodological challenges involving the semantic ambiguity of terms and verified the importance of situational context to scale development and use. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval
Bateman, Judy – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Reports end-users' ratings of the relative importance of 40 relevance criteria as used in their own information-seeking situations, and examines relationships between criteria that they rated most important. A model of relevance with three constructs that contribute to the concept of relevance was proposed using 11 criteria that survey respondents…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
Spink, Amanda; Greisdorf, Howard; Bateman, Judy – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Proposes a useful concept of relevance as a relationship and an effect on the movement of a user through the iterative stages of their information seeking process, and that users' relevance judgments can be plotted on a Three-Dimensional Spatial Model of Relevance Level, Degree and Time. Discusses implications for the development of information…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Systems
