As research questions and topics in information studies evolve, there is a continual need to seek out innovative research methods to help us investigate and address these questions. This paper presents an emerging research method, the creation and analysis of information horizon maps, and discusses the use of such maps in an ongoing research study. Sonnenwald’s (1) framework for human informati...

OBJECTIVES To determine information seeking behavior of physicians. DATA SOURCES Systematic review of 19 studies that described information seeking behavior in a number of different settings using differing methodologies. Analysis was limited to quantitative studies describing sources of information sought by physicians. RESULTS Investigators have used questionnaires, interviews and observa...

This paper reports the results of two empirical studies which explored the information seeking behaviour of engineering and law students in Ireland. Findings reveal similar patterns in the information seeking behaviour between students studying to become professionals and information seeking patterns of these groups identified in the Leckie et al. model. Students learned their information seeki...

Collaborative information seeking (CIS) has become common and occurs when people search the Web together to pursue a complex and exploratory task, such as scientific research, holiday planning, etc. Sensemaking activities are highly involved in these tasks but we have limited understanding of collaborative sensemaking behaviour in the CIS context. In this paper, we describe an exploratory study...

Health Information Retrieval is the application of Information Retrieval concepts and techniques to the healthcare domain. Contextual Information Retrieval is a subarea of IR that incorporates context features in the search process towards its improvement. Both areas have been gaining interest from the research community but it’s not frequent to see the combination of both. The Ph.D. research p...

Introduction. This paper presents an exploration of information sharing and trust in a geographically dispersed network of design scholars. Method. The study used a practice theory approach to identify aspects of trust in relation to information sharing. The empirical material consists of 15 in-depth interviews with design scholars from four Nordic countries and field notes from workplace visit...