RESEARCH

Task-based information access, interaction and retrieval

My research interests include task-based information interaction in various task domains. I am also interested in information interaction in digital humanities.

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2022

Late, E., & Kumpulainen, S. (2022). Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources. JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, 78(7), 106-124. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2021-0078

Kettunen, K., Keskustalo, H., Kumpulainen, S., Pääkkönen, T., & Rautiainen, J. (2022). OCR Quality Affects Perceived Usefulness of Historical Newspaper Clippings. A User Study. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3160, [1]. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3160/paper1.pdf

Arguello, J., Bailey, P., Kumpulainen, S., McKay, D., & Yamamoto, T. (2022). CHIIR 2022 Program Chairs Welcome. In CHIIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (Vol. 7, pp. V). (ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval; Vol. 7). ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3498366#issue-downloads

2021

Letonsaari, T., & Kumpulainen, S. (2021). Informaatiotutkimus-lehden tutkimusaiheet ja niiden vaikuttavuus vuosina 1981–2020. Informaatiotutkimus, 40(4), 5-26. https://doi.org/10.23978/inf.111812

Keskustalo, H., Late, E., Korkeamäki, L., Kumpulainen, S., & Kettunen, K. (2021). Informaatiovuorovaikutus historian tutkimuksessa: tiedonlähteiden käytön ymmärtämisestä käytön tukemiseen. Informaatiotutkimus, 40(3), 245-268. https://doi.org/10.23978/inf.107890

Kumpulainen, S., & Late, E. (2021). Struggling with digitized historical newspapers: Contextual barriers to information interaction in history research activities. Journal of the association for information science and technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24608

Zhang, B., Kumpulainen, S., & Keskustalo, H. (2021). A Review on Information Retrieval in the Historical Digital Humanities Domain. In The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2021 (pp. 1-17). (Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities Official Conference Proceedings). IAFOR (International Academic Forum). https://papers.iafor.org/submission59318/

Berget, G., Hall, M. M., Brenn, D., & Kumpulainen, S. (Eds.) (2021). Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: 25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2021, Virtual Event, September 13–17, 2021, Proceedings. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; No. 12866). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86324-1

2020

Kumpulainen, S., Keskustalo, H., Zhang, B., & Stefanidis, K. (2020). Historical reasoning in authentic research tasks: Mapping cognitive and document spaces. JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 71(2), 230-241. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24216

Byström, K., & Kumpulainen, S. (2020). Vertical and horizontal relationships amongst task-based information needs. INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT, 57(2), [102065]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102065

Koolen, M., Kumpulainen, S., & Melgar-Estrada, L. (2020). A Workflow Analysis Perspective to Scholarly Research Tasks. In H. O'Brien, & L. Freund (Eds.), CHIIR '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 183-192). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3377969

2019

Kumpulainen, S., & Harviainen, J. T. (2019). Service design for information searching. Information Research, 24(4), [colis1941]. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202205034308

Korkeamäki, L., & Kumpulainen, S. (2019). Interacting with Digital Documents : A Real Life Study of Historians' Task Processes, Actions and Goals. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 35-43). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298931

2018

Late, E., Kumpulainen, S., Talja, S., Christian, L., & Tenopir, C. (2018). Suomalaisten tutkijoiden sosiaalisen median käyttö : sosiaalisen median merkitys työssä, tiedonhankinnassa ja tieteellisen tiedon jakamisessa. Informaatiotutkimus, 37(4), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.23978/inf.77416

Kumpulainen, S., Huurdeman, H., & Keskustalo, H. (2018). Personalization needs extension towards task stages in collaborative research work tasks. In G. J. F. Jones (Ed.), WEPIR 2018: Workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information Retrieval Adapt Centre. https://wepir.adaptcentre.ie/papers/WEPIR_2018_paper_2.pdf

2017

Kumpulainen, S. (2017). Task-Based Information Searching. In J. D. McDonald, & M. Levine-Clark (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences : Fourth Edition CRC Press. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781466552609/chapters/10.1081%2FE-ELIS4-120053108

Kumpulainen, S. W., & Kautonen, H. (2017). Accidentally Successful Searching: Users' Perceptions of a Digital Library. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 257-260). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022124

2015

Järvelin, K., Vakkari, P., Arvola, P., Baskaya, F., Järvelin, A., Kekäläinen, J., Keskustalo, H., Kumpulainen, S., Saastamoinen, M., Savolainen, R., & Sormunen, E. (2015). Task-based information interaction evaluation: The viewpoint of program theory. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 33(1), [3]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2699660

Kumpulainen, S. (2015). Tutkimuksen arviointia vai tieteellisen toiminnan vaikuttavuuden arviointia?: Bibliometriikkaseminaari 2015. Informaatiotutkimus, 34(4), 1-3. http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/inf/article/view/53509/16666

Kumpulainen, S., & Huurdeman, H. (2015). Shaken, not steered - the value of shaking up the search process. In M. Gäde (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015) [7] (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; No. Vol-1338). CEUR-WS.org. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1338/paper_7.pdf

Keskustalo, H., Sormunen, E., Järvelin, K., Kettunen, K., Kumpulainen, S., Ferro, N., Silvello, G., Järvelin, A., Kekäläinen, J., Arvola, P., & Saastamoinen, M. (2015). Targeted query expansions as a method for searching mixed quality digitized cultural heritage documents. In iConference 2015 Proceedings iSchools. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/73430

Huurdeman, H., Kamps, J., Koolen, M., & Kumpulainen, S. (2015). The value of multistage search systems for book search. In L. Cappellato (Ed.), CLEF2015 Working Notes [85] (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 1391). http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:tty-201701101036

Kumpulainen, S., & Huurdeman, H. (2015). Shaken, not steered: The value of shaking up the search process.

2014

Saastamoinen, M., & Kumpulainen, S. (2014). Expected and materialised information source use by municipal officials : intertwining with task complexity. Information Research, 19(4), [646]. http://www.informationr.net/ir/19-4/paper646.html#.VJAj9Xv9xCp

Kumpulainen, S. (2014). Trails across the heterogeneous information environment: Manual integration patterns of search systems in molecular medicine. JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, 70(5), 856-877. https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-06-2013-0082

Kumpulainen, S. (2014). Tehtäväperusteinen tiedonhaku molekyylilääketieteessä. Informaatiotutkimus, 33(2). http://www.ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/inf/article/download/46314/12393

Kekäläinen, J., Arvola, P., & Kumpulainen, S. (2014). Browsing patterns in retrieved documents. In D. Elsweiler, L. Bernd, L. Azzopardi, & M. L. Wilson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIiX 2014 (pp. 299-302). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637047

2013

Saastamoinen, M., Kumpulainen, S., Vakkari, P., & Järvelin, K. (2013). Task complexity affects information use: A questionnaire study in city administration. Information Research, 18(4), [592]. http://www.informationr.net/ir/18-4/paper592.html#.Uq7i1ydhtIc

Kumpulainen, S. (2013). Task-based information access in molecular medicine : task performance, barriers, and searching within a heterogeneous information environment. (Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; No. 1879). Tampere University Press. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-44-9287-7

2012

Kumpulainen, S., & Järvelin, K. (2012). Barriers to task-based information access in molecular medicine. JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63(1), 86-97. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21672

Saastamoinen, M., Kumpulainen, S., & Järvelin, K. (2012). Task complexity and information searching in administrative tasks revisited. In IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems (pp. 204-213) https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362759

2010

Kumpulainen, S., & Järvelin, K. (2010). Information interaction in molecular medicine: Integrated use of multiple channels. In IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp. 95-104) https://doi.org/10.1145/1840784.1840800

2009

Kumpulainen, S., Järvelin, K., Serola, S., Doherty, A., Byrne, D., Smeaton, A. F., & Jones, G. F. J. (2009). Data collection methods for analyzing task-based information access in molecular medicine. In H. M. G. Martins (Ed.), Mobilizing health information to support healthcare-related knowledge work: proceedings of the 1st international workshop on mobilizing health information to support healthcare-related knowledge work (pp. 49-58). INSTICC PRESS.

2008

Roos, A., Kumpulainen, S., Järvelin, K., & Hedlund, T. (2008). Information Environment of Researchers in Molecular Medicine. Information Research, 13(3), 353-353. http://InformationR.net/ir/13-3/paper353.html

Roos, A., Kumpulainen, S., Järvelin, K., & Hedlund, T. (2008). The information environment of researchers in molecular medicine. Information Research, 13(3).

Byrne, D., Doherty, A. R., Jones, G. J. F., Smeaton, A. F., Kumpulainen, S., & Järvelin, K. (2008). The SenseCam as a tool for task observation. In D. England (Ed.), Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008 (Vol. 2, pp. 19-22). BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY.

2006

Järvelin, A., Kumpulainen, S., Pirkola, A., & Sormunen, E. (2006). Sumeat käännösmenetelmät läheisten sukulaiskielten välisessä tiedonhaussa. Informaatiotutkimus, 25(4).

Järvelin, A., Kumpulainen, S., Pirkola, A., & Sormunen, E. (2006). Dictionary-independent translation in CLIR between closely related languages. In F. M. G. de Jong (Ed.), 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006) Neslia Paniculata. http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/dir2006/abstracts/jarvelin_paper.pdf