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,...

Adults are increasingly seeking autism diagnoses, although less is known about their experiences of diagnosis and personal identity (i.e., as part “me”), how this relates to self-esteem wellbeing. One-hundred fifty-one autistic adults completed an online survey including measures self-esteem, psychological wellbeing, identity, which considered whether participants took pride in or were dissatis...

The Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) is a popular measure of (AI). purpose the present study was to investigate factor structure (7-item single and 3 model; Social Identity, Exclusivity Negative Affectivity) AIMS within youth academy soccer players. A total 259 male players aged 12-18 years completed AIMS. series confirmatory analyses, independent cluster modelling indicated support f...

Adolescence is a crucial period in seeking self-identity as part of an individual's development. In searching self-identity, most adolescents have conflicts within themselves, because they experience biological, cognitive, and social transitions. This study aims to determine the use psychoeducation overcoming adolescent problems related self-concept. Samples are taken based on purposive samplin...

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...