  This survey presents studies that investigated non-spatial (sequential) and
spatial information retrieval systems in parallel during a battery of
information-seeking tasks with respect to user navigational behaviors,
incidental learning, retrieval performance, cognitive abilities & load, direct
manipulation of 2D & 3D interfaces, and satisfaction. I consider how
information theory has contributed to the concepts of foraging, sense-making,
exploration, and how the applied areas of interactive information retrieval
(IIR) and cognitive/behavioral psychology have implemented these concepts into
architecture, interface design, experimental design, user study, and evaluation
methodology.
