A Behavioral Economics Approach to Interactive Information Retrieval: Understanding and Supporting Boundedly Rational Users

This book brings together the insights from three different areas, Information Seeking and Retrieval, Cognitive Psychology, and Behavioral Economics, and shows how this new interdisciplinary approach can advance our knowledge about users interacting with diverse search systems, especially their seemingly irrational decisions and anomalies that could not be predicted by most normative models.

The first part “Foundation” of this book introduces the general notions and fundamentals of this n...