Tracking Research Scents in the Wilderness - How the interface design of search tools affects user behavior

摘要

In 2008, Julie Jones, then at Cornell and now at the University of Connecticut, won the AALL LexisNexis Call for Papers competition with an entry that was eventually published in the winter 2009 issue of Law Library Journal as "Not Just Key Numbers and Keywords Anymore: How User Interface Design Affects Legal Research." I was first exposed to Jones' research when she made a presentation at the American Association of Law Schools annual meeting in January 2009. Jones cast information-seeking behavior as a bear searching for the richest food sources in the wilderness. She analogized the results of queries to the scents a bear might follow to find either berry bushes or salmon.