• Introduction: New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval.- CIR Concepts.- Interactive Information Retrieval: Bringing the User to a Selection State.- Cognitive Overlaps along the Polyrepresentation Continuum.- Integration Approaches to Relevance.- New Cognitive Directions.- CIR Processes.- A Multitasking Framework for Cognitive Information Retrieval.- Explanation in Information Seeking and Retrieval.- Towards an Alternative Information Retrieval System for Children.- CIR Techniques.- Implicit Feedback: Using Behavior to Infer Relevance.- Educational Knowledge Domain Visualizations: Tools to Navigate, Understand, and Internalize the Structure of Scholarly Knowledge and Expertise.- Learning and Training to Search.- Conclusions.- Conclusion and Further Research.

From the reviews: "The book examines three aspects of the cognitive and interactive aspects of information retrieval: concepts, processes and techniques. ... The editors have written an introductory chapter outlining the themes of the book and a concluding summary which ties together the individual paper and points the way for future research. ... To librarians in need of greater understanding of the knowledge needs and knowledge behaviour of our clients ... this book could well supply some insights." (The Australian Library Journal, February, 2007)