A socio-cognitive framework for designing interactive IR systems: Lessons from the Neanderthals

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1784-1793

  Cole, Charles ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive information retrieval; Decoding; Encoding; Enhanced working memory; Evolutionary psychology; Information retrieval; Information retrieval model; Neanderthals

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BRAIN; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); THEOREM PROVING;

ADAPTIVE SOLUTIONS; CASE STUDIES; CHANGING CONDITIONS; DESIGN FRAMEWORK; EFFICIENT ENCODING; ELSEVIER (CO); ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULUS; EVOLUTION (CO); HUMAN BRAINS; IMPULSE RADIO (IR) SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE IR; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURING; POWER ON; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES; SYSTEM INTERACTIONS; WORKING MEMORY (WM);

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 47349112073     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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