Information seeking behaviour in image retrieval: VISOR I final report 
            Lynne R. Conniss, A. Julie Ashford and Margaret E. Graham 
            Newcastle upon Tyne: Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 2000. (Library and Information Commission Research Report 95) 147 p.: ill. ISBN 1861350511 (pa.) £25.00.

Pisciotta, Henry

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“…For example, architects in Beaudoin's (2014) study sought images for architectural information, such as design styles. Students also seek images to understand abstract knowledge, as reported in Beaudoin (2014), Conniss et al (2002), and Huang and Kelly (2013). Huang and Kelly (2013) also found that instructors use images to accompany course content to make abstract information more accessible to audiences.…”

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A systematic literature review on image information needs and behaviors

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Leonard

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PurposeWith ready access to search engines and social media platforms, the way people find image information has evolved and diversified in the past two decades. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the literature on image information needs and behaviors.Design/methodology/approachFollowing an eight-step procedure for conducting systematic literature reviews, the paper presents an analysis of peer-reviewed work on image information needs and behaviors, with publications ranging from the years 1997 to 2019.FindingsApplication of the inclusion criteria led to 69 peer-reviewed works. These works were synthesized according to the following categories: research methods, users targeted, image types, identified needs, search behaviors and search obstacles. The reviewed studies show that people seek and use images for multiple reasons, including entertainment, illustration, aesthetic appreciation, knowledge construction, engagement, inspiration and social interactions. The reviewed studies also report that common strategies for image searches include keyword searches with short queries, browsing, specialization and reformulation. Observed trends suggest common deployment of query analysis, survey questionnaires and undergraduate participant pools to research image information needs and behavior.Originality/valueAt this point, after more than two decades of image information needs research, a holistic systematic review of the literature was long overdue. The way users find image information has evolved and diversified due to technological developments in image retrieval. By synthesizing this burgeoning field into specific foci, this systematic literature review provides a foundation for future empirical investigation. With this foundation set, the paper then pinpoints key research gaps to investigate, particularly the influence of user expertise, a need for more diverse population samples, a dearth of qualitative data, new search features and information and visual literacies instruction.

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Image searching in an open photograph archive: search tactics and faced barriers in historical research

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Ruotsalainen,

Kumpulainen

2024

Int J Digit Libr

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During the last decades, cultural heritage collections have been digitized, for example, for the use of academic scholars. However, earlier studies have mainly focused on the use of textual materials. Thus, little is known about how digitized photographs are used and searched in digital humanities. The aim of this paper is to investigate the applied search tactics and perceived barriers when looking for historical photographs from a digital image archive for research and writing tasks. The case archive of this study contains approximately 160,000 historical wartime photographs that are openly available. The study is based on a qualitative interview and demonstration data of 15 expert users of the image collection searching photographs for research and writing tasks. Critical incident questions yielded a total of 37 detailed real-life search examples and 158 expressed barriers to searching. Results show that expert users apply and combine different tactics (keywords, filtering and browsing) for image searching, and rarely using one tactic only is enough. During searching users face various barriers, most of them focusing on keyword searching due to the shortcomings of image metadata. Barriers were mostly in the context of the collection and tools. Although scholars have benefited from the efforts put into digitizing cultural heritage collections, providing digitized content openly online is not enough if there are no sufficient means for accessing the content. Automatic annotation methods are one option for creating metadata to improve the findability of the images. However, a better understanding of human information interaction with image data is needed to better support digitalization in the humanities in this respect.

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A systematic literature review on image information needs and behaviors

A systematic literature review on image information needs and behaviors

Image searching in an open photograph archive: search tactics and faced barriers in historical research

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