This is the fourth in a series resulting from a joint research project directed by Professor Tom Wilson in the United Kingdom and Dr. Amanda Spink in the United States. The analysis reported here sought to test a number of hypotheses linking global/analytic cognitive styles and aspects of researchers’ problem-solving and related information-seeking behavior. One hundred and eleven postdoctoral ...

Purpose To explore the value of utilising a holistic ergonomic approach, covering engineering, cognitive, and social perspectives, to cultivate beneficial and productive CIS systems and environments, specifically with regard to three main CIS pillars (control, communication and awareness). Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research approach, based on a selective corpus of CIS literature...

We present Coagmento a framework for supporting collaborative information seeking, synthesis, and sense-making. As a system, Coagmento is a combination of browser plugin, which includes a toolbar and a sidebar, and CSpace, an online collaborative space. ACM Classification

This study examines three aspects of information seeking behaviour of astronomers in Greece including a) the importance they place in keeping upto-date with current developments b) the methods they depend on for keeping up-to-date and c) the information sources they mostly use. We adopted an intradisciplinary approach in order to investigate similarities and differences in information seeking b...

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...

Collaborative information seeking (CIS) has lately produced interesting empirical studies, describing CIS in real-life settings. While these studies explore how and why CIS manifests itself in different domains, discussions about how to study CIS have been scarce. The research area of CIS may, however, benefit from a discussion of methodological issues. This chapter describes the application of...

Introduction. This study investigated the information seeking behaviour and needs of parents of paediatric patients and their motives for seeking Internet-based information. Method. A questionnaire survey of 121 parents was conducted in a paediatric clinic of a Greek university hospital. Analysis. The data were analysed using SPSS; descriptive statistics were used to summarise the data and non-...

Using semantic technologies for mining and intelligent information access to social media is a challenging, emerging research area. Traditional search methods are no longer able to address the more complex information seeking behaviour in media streams, which has evolved towards sense making, learning, investigation, and social search. Unlike carefully authored news text and longer web context,...

Team cognition concepts are important in the collaborative information seeking (CIS) community. Yet, while this importance has been recognized there is a lack of research on team cognition within CIS. We take the position that team cognition concepts and measurements can be very useful to CIS researchers . This paper provides an understanding of what team mental models and common ground are. We...

Users as actors in interactive information retrieval (IIR) are seen in the contexts of their perceived work tasks and information seeking behaviour. The paper models IIR processes by demonstrating a variety of approaches, ranging from Ingwersen ́s cognitive communication model for IR interaction, over Saraceveic ́ stratified model which includes a typology of relevance conceptions, to Borlund ́s m...