We present an analysis of information retrieval as an information-seeking activity, supporting people's inteactions with text. This analysis suggests that some assumptions underlying the standard model of information retrieval are inappropriate, and we suggest alternative assumptions and discuss their implications for information retrieval system design. It is proposed that information retireva...

This study explores the extent to which the information seeking behaviour of researchers active in the field of English Literature in the universities of the UK and the wider world has changed as a result of the developing electronic information revolution. It deals with the researchers’ attitudes towards the Internet and examines their position with regard to utilizing the Internet as a public...

This article, the third of three, used the methods of an own interpretations and judgments, and to highlight possiethnography of communication to explore the individual ble impacts of several different research views on inforinformation behavior in sense making of participants in mation behavior in relation to other aspects of people’s the annual work planning of a unit of a public agency. In l...

Psychological motivation for information searching is an important area of research that has received relatively little attention. This study addresses these motivatio11s in an academic environment. Psychological needs causing undergraudates to seek informtion in the context of continuing motivation are identified. In addition, the study identifies categories of sources used to satisfy these in...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag wird die Beobachtung des Informationsverhaltens als zentraler methodischer Ansatz der informationswissenschaftlicher Forschung identifiziert, der auch unter Anerkennung terminologischer, evtl. sogar ontologischer Grundannahmen eine Kooperation über die Grenzen etablierter Paradigmata hinaus erlaubt.

Microblog has grown popularly as a seminal social medium for timely information seeking and sharing. However, the reason why individuals update real-time information in microblog has not been well understood, and empirical research to address this specific information behavior is hardly available. As a felt urge can be conceptualized as a precursor of real-time updating in the microblog, we att...

In this paper we explored three areas: decision making and information seeking, the relationship between information seeking and uncertainty, and the role of expertise in influencing information use. This was undertaken in the context of a qualitative study into decision making in the initial stages of emergency response to major incidents. The research took an interpretive approach in which ac...

In order to design better search experiences, we need to understand the complexities of human information-seeking behaviour. In this paper, we propose a model of information behavior based on the needs of users of consumer-oriented websites and search applications. The model consists of a set of search modes that that users employ to satisfy their information search and discovery goals. We pres...