Information Seeking in Electronic Environments

Information Seeking in Electronic Environments

Author: Gary Marchionini

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780521586740

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Describes how the strategies we use to locate information have begun to change as a result of computers and telecommunications technology.


Collaborative Information Seeking

Collaborative Information Seeking

Author: Preben Hansen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-12

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 3319189883

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Compiled by world- class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. Covering aspects of theories, models, and applications the book is divided in three parts: · Best Practices and Studies: providing an overview of current knowledge and state-of-the-art in the field. · New Domains: covers some of the new and exciting opportunities of applying CIS · New Thoughts: focuses on new research directions by scholars from academia and industry from around the world. Collaborative Information Seeking provides a valuable reference for student, teachers, and researchers interested in the area of collaborative work, information seeking/retrieval, and human-computer interaction.


Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends

Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends

Author: Al-Suqri, Mohammed Nasser

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2015-02-28

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1466681578

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With the increasingly complex and ubiquitous data available through modern technology, digital information is being utilized daily by academics and professionals of all disciplines and career paths. Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends brings together the many theories and meta-theories that make information science relevant across different disciplines. Highlighting theories that had their base in the early days of text-based information and expanding to the digitization of the Internet, this book is an essential reference source for those involved in the education and training of the next-generation of information science professionals, as well as those who are currently working on the design and development of our current information products, systems, and services.


INFORMATION NEEDS AND INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF LAWYERS IN THE DISTRICT COURTS OF ANDHRA PRADESH: A SURVEY

INFORMATION NEEDS AND INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF LAWYERS IN THE DISTRICT COURTS OF ANDHRA PRADESH: A SURVEY

Author: Dr.K. Ramachandrappa

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1387288164

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Information is regarded as a valuable resource in the modern day information society. It has become even more valuable to acquire, use and implement information for various specific purposes or activities. This process is known as the information-seeking process. Information-seeking is a broad term, which involves a set of actions that an individual takes to express his information needs, seek, evaluate and select information, and finally, use it to satisfy his information needs. However, various factors affect the information-seeking behavior of an individual or a group of individuals, i.e. purpose for information, channels and sources of information and barriers to information.


Youth Information-seeking Behavior II

Youth Information-seeking Behavior II

Author: Mary K. Chelton

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780810856547

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Presents an historical overview of the literature on children's use and understanding of electronic information systems.


New Trends and Challenges in Information Science and Information Seeking Behaviour

New Trends and Challenges in Information Science and Information Seeking Behaviour

Author: Octavia-Luciana Madge

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-16

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 3030684660

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This book presents a series of recent studies that introduce current topics and novel concepts in the field of information science. Among the chapters are discussions of the contribution of information science to society in the dual context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Agenda 2030, some negative aspects of information behaviour, including criminal activities in the dark web and the hikikomori phenomenon, the hot issues of fake news and hate speech from a library and information science perspective, gamification in libraries, and the new concepts of ‘jamography’ and ‘disnormative information’. Intended for information specialists and researchers, librarians and library and information science students, the book analyses how people use information, what their information needs are and how these needs are satisfied in today’s digital world. The book can also serve as a useful reference for the education and training of students and specialists in library and information services.


Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval

Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval

Author: Ian Ruthven

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1856047075

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Information retrieval (IR) is a complex human activity supported by sophisticated systems. Information science has contributed much to the design and evaluation of previous generations of IR system development and to our general understanding of how such systems should be designed and yet, due to the increasing success and diversity of IR systems, many recent textbooks concentrate on IR systems themselves and ignore the human side of searching for information. This book is the first text to provide an information science perspective on IR. Unique in its scope, the book covers the whole spectrum of information retrieval, including: history and background information behaviour and seeking task-based information searching and retrieval approaches to investigating information interaction and behaviour information representation access models evaluation interfaces for IR interactive techniques web retrieval, ranking and personalization recommendation, collaboration and social search multimedia: interfaces and access. Readership: Senior undergraduates and masters' level students of all information and library studies courses and practising LIS professionals who need to better appreciate how IR systems are designed, implemented and evaluated.


Collaborative Information Seeking

Collaborative Information Seeking

Author: Chirag Shah

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-07-04

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 3642288138

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Today’s complex, information-intensive problems often require people to work together. Mostly these tasks go far beyond simply searching together; they include information lookup, sharing, synthesis, and decision-making. In addition, they all have an end-goal that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Such “collaborative information seeking” (CIS) projects typically last several sessions and the participants all share an intention to contribute and benefit. Not surprisingly, these processes are highly interactive. Shah focuses on two individually well-understood notions: collaboration and information seeking, with the goal of bringing them together to show how it is a natural tendency for humans to work together on complex tasks. The first part of his book introduces the general notions of collaboration and information seeking, as well as related concepts, terminology, and frameworks; and thus provides the reader with a comprehensive treatment of the concepts underlying CIS. The second part of the book details CIS as a standalone domain. A series of frameworks, theories, and models are introduced to provide a conceptual basis for CIS. The final part describes several systems and applications of CIS, along with their broader implications on other fields such as computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and human-computer interaction (HCI). With this first comprehensive overview of an exciting new research field, Shah delivers to graduate students and researchers in academia and industry an encompassing description of the technologies involved, state-of-the-art results, and open challenges as well as research opportunities.


Social Information Seeking

Social Information Seeking

Author: Chirag Shah

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-28

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 331956756X

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This volume summarizes the author’s work on social information seeking (SIS), and at the same time serves as an introduction to the topic. Sometimes also referred to as social search or social information retrieval, this is a relatively new area of study concerned with the seeking and acquiring of information from social spaces on the Internet. It involves studying situations, motivations, and methods involved in seeking and sharing of information in participatory online social sites, such as Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, and Twitter, as well as building systems for supporting such activities. The first part of the book introduces various foundational concepts, including information seeking, social media, and social networking. As such it provides the necessary basis to then discuss how those aspects could intertwine in different ways to create methods, tools, and opportunities for supporting and leveraging SIS. Next, Part II discusses the social dimension and primarily examines the online question-answering activity. Part III then emphasizes the collaborative aspect of information seeking, and examines what happens when social and collaborative dimensions are considered together. Lastly, Part IV provides a synthesis by consolidating methods, systems, and evaluation techniques related to social and collaborative information seeking. The book is completed by a list of challenges and opportunities for both theoretical and practical SIS work. The book is intended mainly for researchers and graduate students looking for an introduction to this new field, as well as developers and system designers interested in building interactive information retrieval systems or social/community-driven interfaces.