Corinne Jörgensen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
cjorgensen@ci.fsu.edu

Broad Area: Organization and Retrieval of Information

Focus: Image Indexing and Retrieval

Human Search Processes

• Cognitive processes in image searching
• Image searching by different user groups
• Impact of task upon search process
• Relevance in visual searching

Image Indexing and Representation

• Range of image attributes
• Image indexing vocabularies
• Visual indexing languages
• Image indexing and metadata tools and structures
• Indexing levels: specificity and granularity
• Narrative and Discourse Structure in images
• Cognitive modeling of image representations
• Matching machine methods to perceptual and interpretive attributes
• Methods of distributed indexing
• Integrated indexing record (CBR and vocabulary)

Image Retrieval System Design

• Search method issues: number, granularity, expert/non-expert
• Interface design
• Levels of searching necessary
• Evaluation methods and benchmarking

Broad Area: Human Information Seeking Behavior

Focus: Impact of Technologies on Searching

Human Search Processes

• Decision criteria among sources/services in electronic/traditional environments
• System effects on perceptions of information criteria
• Models of information seeking in object-rich environments
• Relationship of demographic and situational circumstances to use of technology
• Interface and Information design issues