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Web Information Systems Lab (Atsushi Matsumura)
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The lab explores search systems that connect people and knowledge, from information seeking to picture book recommendation.
AboutAbout the lab
Connecting what people want to know with what the world knows.
The Web Information Systems Lab studies methods for discovering and organizing knowledge from a wide range of information, such as the Web, literature, and manuals.
The lab also analyzes what people need in what situation, for example whether they want the answer to a problem or want to learn from related information.
It aims to realize knowledge and information retrieval systems that connect what people want to know with what the world knows.
Its research themes also include interfaces for information seeking and picture book recommendation.
Key terms
- Information seeking
- The act of searching for needed information. Differences in the situation and needs of the person searching are also subjects of analysis in this lab.
- Serendipity
- The experience of unexpectedly coming across something useful.
NewsLab news
Paper on information-seeking behavior at library bookshelves published in the Journal of the Japan Society of Information and Knowledge
Received the Sponsor Award (LayerX Inc. Award) at DEIM Forum 2024
ResearchResearch themes
The lab approaches its research from two sides: methods for discovering and organizing knowledge from a wide range of information such as the Web, literature, and manuals, and the analysis of what people need in what situation. Its goal is to realize knowledge and information retrieval systems that connect what people want to know with what the world knows.
*Illustrative imageInformation Seeking at Bookshelves and Expanding Interests
Using library classification systems and the way books are placed as cues, the lab works on research that broadens users' interests and leads to an understanding of systems of knowledge. It has also published research on information-seeking behavior at bookshelves.
*Illustrative imageRecommendation That Encourages Unexpected Encounters
The lab studies methods for serendipitous recommendation based on users' curiosity. It aims to encourage encounters with things that are both unexpected and useful.
*Illustrative imagePicture Book Recommendation and Read-Aloud Sessions
The lab uses picture book recommendation and read-aloud sessions as subjects of its research. It also examines how utterances by other children, produced with AI voices, affect group read-aloud sessions.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorAtsushi Matsumura
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Kisosaki Town Library reading seats ac” Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Information Seeking at Bookshelves and Expanding Interests: “MarkhamPublicLibraryC3” Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine / CC0 (cropped)
- Recommendation That Encourages Unexpected Encounters: “Amazon Books Store at Bellevue Square (2021)” Chew / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Picture Book Recommendation and Read-Aloud Sessions: “Easy picture books for children” EmerioJoelMendez / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Human Information Interaction Lab (Hideo Joho)): “Photograph of West Search Room and Library - DPLA - 7c2b6f10cd5bcfdf7cb2b52f200d74ce” General Services Administration. National Archives and Records Service. Office of Educational Programs. Education Division. ?-4/1/1985 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Information Retrieval Lab (Pham Huu Long)): “Strand Bookstore shelves” Acebarry / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Information Retrieval Lab (Masao Takaku)): “St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Wash. D.C In 1918 - Corner of reading room - American Library Association - NARA - 20801166 (cropped)” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Super-Aged Society Services Lab (Masaki Takeda)): “Rostelecom and evening computer classes for elderly persons 01” Taken by Davit Saroyan for Wikimedia Armenia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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