Abstract
In many real-world contexts, human reasoners may not possess a priori knowledge of source analogues required to address target problems by analogy. Under such circumstances, a human might interact with her external information environment to obtain the needed source analogue(s). In this paper, we investigate interactive analogical retrieval wherein the retrieval process is mediated by the external information environment. We first report on empirical findings and then propose a theoretical model of interactive analogical retrieval.
