Marcia Bates on Search Systems

<p><b>Marcia Bates</b> is Professor Emerita in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies. Over the course of a long career in both consulting and academia, Dr. Bates produced seminal work in user-centered information system design. Her paper on “berrypicking” as a user search strategy has been widely cited and is considered a foundational text in the field. In this conversation, we discuss search systems.<br/><br/><b>Transcript</b><br/><a href='https://theinformed.life/2023/01/01/episode-104-marcia-bates-on-search-systems/'>https://theinformed.life/2023/01/01/episode-104-marcia-bates-on-search-systems/</a></p><p><b>Show notes</b></p><ul><li><a href='https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/'>Marcia J. Bates Home Page</a></li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_J._Bates'>Marcia J. Bates - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href='https://seis.ucla.edu/departments-and-degrees/department-of-information-studies'>UCLA Department of Information Studies</a></li><li><a href='https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/berrypicking.html'>The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques</a></li><li><a href='https://amzn.to/3hUoqgg'><em>Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume I</em></a></li><li><a href='https://amzn.to/3WoG1fy'><em>Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume II</em></a></li><li><a href='https://amzn.to/3PSli14'><em>Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume III</em></a></li><li><a href='https://amzn.to/3C251kD'><em>The Contemporary Thesaurus of Search Terms and Synonyms: A Guide for Natural Language Computer Searching, Second Edition</em></a>, by Sarah Knapp</li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra'>Boolean algebra - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kuhlthau'>Carol Kuhlthau - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href='https://www.eia.gov/'>U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)</a></li></ul><p><em>Show notes include Amazon affiliate links. We get a small commission for purchases made through these links.</em></p>