The launch of this First International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context is a significant and innovative development in the field of Information Research. It represents a new departure in providing a forum to explicitly explore the relationship between three major distinct perspectives of information research namely, Information Seeking Behaviour, laboratory and experimental Information Retrieval and Interactive Information Retrieval. Until now it has been the norm to accentuate the differences between these sub-fields and indeed there has been little agreement on recognising the value and dependency of the different approaches and paradigms. In spite of the persistent call from a number of researchers for the need for a paradigm shift from systems to user centred information research, the overall perception is that progress in accommodating the different approaches has been limited and systems based research seemingly continues to predominate.
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