• 'Irrational' searchers and IR-rational researchers 

      Pharo, Nils; Järvelin, Kalervo (Journal of The American Society For Information Science And Technology, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      In this article we look at the prescriptions advocated by Web search textbooks in the light of a selection of empirical data of real Web information search processes. We use the strategy of disjointed incrementalism, which ...
    • The SST method: a tool for analysing Web information search processes 

      Pharo, Nils; Järvelin, Kalervo (Information Processing & Management, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)
      The article presents the search situation transition (SST) method for analysing Web information search (WIS) processes. The idea of the method is to analyse searching behaviour, the process, in detail and connect both the ...