This paper describes a small-scale experimental study examining user behaviour in the context of structured documents. Two variants of the same interface to support information seeking were implemented, one highlighting relevant objects and one highlighting best entry points (BEPs). BEPs are intended to support users’ natural information seeking behaviour by providing optimal starting points fo...

Purpose: This study aimed to acquire knowledge about Singapore secondary school (ages 13 to 16 years old) students’ skills in searching, evaluating and using information. Methodology: A comprehensive instrument encompassing the basic IL skills, as well as a new dimension of ethical usage of information and collaborative information seeking was used for data collection. From August to November 2...

Although the importance of individual characteristics and psychological factors has been conceptualized in many models of information seeking behaviour (e.g., Case 2007; Wilson 1999) research into personality issues has only recently attracted attention in information science. This may be explained by the work by Heinström (2002; 2003; 2006a; 2006b; 2006c), but may also be explained by the emer...

Mobile applications now incorporate features for communication and collaboration. One way that such applications are being used is in collaborative information seeking. There is, however, a lack of understanding of users’ social interaction needs when performing such tasks. To address this gap and using tourism as the domain, we conducted a diary study to examine tourists’ collaborative informa...

Introduction. This article results from a qualitative case study focusing on the information seeking practices of environmental activists. The main attention was devoted to their perceptions of media credibility and cognitive authority in the context of seeking orienting information about environmental issues in particular. Method. The empirical data were gathered in 2005 by semistructured inte...

While there has been some research on sensemaking in individual information seeking, there is little understanding of sensemaking in collaborative information seeking tasks, such as collaborative Web search. We conducted a study of users’ sensemaking in collaborative Web search tasks performed using SearchTogether. Based on findings of this study, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a tool,...

Throughout development, the conditions that elicit children’s support seeking behaviour change hand in with maturation and changing developmental tasks. Little is known about situations which adolescents need or parental behaviours adolescents’ sense of being supported. In current study, living Netherlands (N = 98, Mage 15.5, SD 1.16, range 14–18 years) filled online questionnaires they were as...

In this demo we introduce Coagmento, a tool for supporting interactive information seeking process of teams in various collaborative scenarios. Coagmento has been used in several laboratory and field studies to understand issues related to collaborative information seeking (CIS) and deriving lessons and guidelines for providing suitable support for people working in collaboration for informatio...

The paper reports on the results of the project ‘Evaluating the usage and impact of e-journals in the UK’. Using deep log analysis techniques, we evaluated the use of the Oxford Journals database in regard to life sciences, economics and history by 10 major UK research institutions. The aim of the study was to investigate researchers’ digital behaviour, and to ascertain whether it varied by sub...