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Information-seeking behavior is a more specific concept of information behavior. It specifically focuses on searching, finding, and retrieving information. Information-seeking behavior research can focus on improving information systems or, if it includes information need, can also focus on why the user behaves the way they do.
Introduced in 1991, Kuhlthau's model of the Information Search Process (ISP) describes feelings, thoughts and actions in six stages of information seeking. [4] [5] The model of the ISP introduced the holistic experience of information seeking from the individual’s perspective, stressed the important role of affect in information seeking and proposed an uncertainty principle as a conceptual ...
The Journal of Individual Psychology; Journal of Mind and Behavior; Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; Journal of Neuropsychology; Journal of Nonverbal Behavior; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; The Journal of Positive Psychology ...
The concepts of information seeking, information retrieval, and information behaviour are objects of investigation of information science. Within this scientific discipline a variety of studies has been undertaken analyzing the interaction of an individual with information sources in case of a specific information need, task, and context. The ...
The comprehensive model of information seeking, or CMIS, is a theoretical construct designed to predict how people will seek information. It was first developed by J. David Johnson and has been utilized by a variety of disciplines including library and information science and health communication .
It is the official journal of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology and the editor-in-chief is Donna Youngs (University of Huddersfield). According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.700, ranking it 51st out of 69 journals in the category "Criminology & Penology" [ 2 ] and 63rd out of 83 ...
Much library and information science (LIS) research has focused on the information-seeking practices of practitioners within various fields of professional work. Studies have been carried out into the information-seeking behaviors of librarians, [ 44 ] academics, [ 45 ] medical professionals, [ 46 ] engineers [ 47 ] and lawyers [ 48 ] (among ...
The information retrieval community has emphasized the use of test collections and benchmark tasks to measure topical relevance, starting with the Cranfield Experiments of the early 1960s and culminating in the TREC evaluations that continue to this day as the main evaluation framework for information retrieval research.