@article{1387652,
      recid = {1387652},
      author = {Arafat, Sachi, and Ashoori, Elham,},
      title = {Search foundations : toward a science of  technology-mediated experience /},
      pages = {1 online resource (448 pages).},
      abstract = {A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information  retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of  technology-mediated experience. In this book, Sachi Arafat  and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual  focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from  search and related processes toward the more general  phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.  Technology-mediated experience accounts for an increasing  proportion of human lived experience; the phenomenon of  mediation gets at the heart of the human-machine  relationship. Framing IR&S more broadly in this way  generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them  with those shared across disciplines dealing with  socio-technical phenomena. This reorientation of IR&S  requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science  of technology-mediated experience (STME). Arafat and  Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the  foundational concepts underlying IR&S and other technical  disciplines but also boldly call for a radical, systematic  appropriation of the sciences and humanities to create a  better understanding of the human-technology relationship.  Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IR&S  and consider ideas of progress from the history and  philosophy of science. They argue that progress in IR&S  requires explicit linking between technical and  nontechnical aspects of discourse. They develop a network  of basic questions and present a discursive framework for  addressing these questions. With this book, Arafat and  Ashoori provide both a manifesto for the reimagining of  their field and the foundations on which a reframed IR&S  would rest.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387652},
}