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Models in information behaviour research
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An alternative, problem‐solving model is presented, which, it is suggested, provides a basis for relating the models of information seeking and other aspects of information behaviour in appropriate research strategies.Abstract:
This paper presents an outline of models of information seeking and other aspects of information behaviour, showing the relationship between communication and information behaviour in general with information seeking and information searching in information retrieval systems. It is suggested that these models address issues at various levels of information behaviour and that they can be related by envisaging a ‘nesting’ of models. It is also suggested that, within both information seeking research and information searching research, alternative models address similar issues in related ways and that the models are complementary rather than conflicting. Finally, an alternative, problem‐solving model is presented, which, it is suggested, provides a basis for relating the models in appropriate research strategies.read more
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Human Information Behavior
TL;DR: Findings are pointed to that enable the system designer to put the design process in the wider context of the user in the organization.
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Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs and Behavior
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The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies
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Exploratory Search:Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm
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