In this work, we study collective intelligence behavior of Web users that share and watch video content. We propose that the aggregated users’ video activity exhibits characteristic patterns that may be used in order to infer important video scenes thus leading to collective intelligence concerning the video content. In particular, we have utilised a controlled user experiment with information-...

Xuemei Ge is Metadata Librarian in Brown-Daniel Library at Tennessee State University; e-mail: xge@ tnstate.edu. © Xuemei Ge This article focuses on how electronic information resources influence the information-seeking process in the social sciences and humanities. It examines the information-seeking behavior of scholars in these fields, and extends the David Ellis model of information-seeking...

Numerous studies of engineers information seeking behavior have found that accessibility was the factor that influenced most their selection of information sources. The concept of accessibility, however, is ambiguous and was given various interpretations by both researchers and engineers. Detailed interviews with 32 engineers, in which they described incidents of personal information seeking in...

The Internet has become a popular source of health information. However, in-depth understanding of the information seeking behaviour of online health information is limited. We conducted an experiment to investigate the information needs and behaviours of health information seekers. This paper reports on a model of behavioural patterns drawn on the experimental results, and implications for des...

This paper reports on a study investigating the information seeking and sensemaking processes undertaken by groups engaged in collaborative exploratory searches. We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight participants who each described two collaborative search experiences: one with friends or family who they knew well, and one with a project group for school or work. Our results highli...

objective: over the last few decades, bangladesh has made significant progress towards achieving targets for the millennium development goals (mdgs) and women empowerment. this study is aimed at identifying the levels and patterns of women empowerment in relation to health seeking behavior in bangladesh. materials and methods: we conducted a cross-sectional study among 200 rural married women i...

In this explorative work, we have focused on understanding information seeking behaviour amongst intranet users. By carrying out a time-based analysis of a week’s worth of log data from a corporate-internal search engine, we have been able to observe patterns of usage as it shifts over days and hours. The results show that numbers of started sessions and activities correlate and follow business...

The notions of collaborative information seeking (CIS) and social search have extended the classical model of information seeking and retrieval. In its core, CIS and social search acknowledge the existence of multiple users and study their implicit and explicit interactions across various dimensions. In this paper, we argue to further extend the scope by introducing information providers as a s...

This paper presents findings from a study of information seeking behaviour by National Health Service patients which explored motivational triggers for infor- mation needs. Previous research has highlighted the importance of contextual elements in users' changing information needs. This paper highlights how those needs may centre on specific events: in particular, a patient's consultation with ...

A two-year study of Web portal use in a large university has found a number of results that can help in management decision making about the use of university Web portals as a communication channel. The study involved the collection and analysis of Web usage statistics for a business information technology school in a large city university over a two-year period. Findings initially indicate tha...