Nicholas Belkin was PI on an NSF project and has led groups participating in the TREC Interactive and HARD tracks from 1994 through 2005. His recent research has focused on personalization, in particular on the interactions between evidence of interest such as dwell time, and other evidence such as task type, stage in task completion, and knowledge of topic. He has significant experience in conducting user studies in IR environments.
Jacek Gwizdka's research is based in human-computer interaction, with a special focus on personalization in the context of personal information management. He has conducted several studies on the relationships between various cognitive characteristics and interaction preferences.
Xiangmin Zhang studies user modeling for IR, with particular emphasis on eliciting or otherwise gathering and representing evidence about a person’s domain knowledge, for the purpose of personalizing retrieval and ranking of information objects. He has special experience in evaluating digital library interfaces.
This page was created by Valerie Addonizio and Siobhan McCarthy to fulfill the requirements for Assignment 4 for 610:550:02 Information Technology, Fall 2007. The official PooDLE Project Website can be found here. All content on this site has been adapted from information given to us by Professor Zhang. This page was last modified on December 20, 2007.