A study of information seeking and retrieving. III. searchers, searches, overlap

The objectives of the study were to conduct a series of observations and experiments under as real-life situ-ation as possible related to: (1) user context of questions in information retrieval; (2) the structure and classi-fication of questions; (3) cognitive traits and decision making of searchers; and (4) different searches of the same question. The study is presented in three parts: Part I presents the background of the study and de-scribes the models, measures, methods, procedures and statistical analyses used. Part II is devoted to results related to users, questions and effectiveness measures, and Part III to results related to searchers, searches and overlap studies. A concluding summary of all results is presented in Part III