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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.
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 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.
More recently, Dr. Wilson looked at information seeking behaviour for the British Library Research and Innovation Centre. The resulting paper, "Uncertainty in Information Seeking," [3] identified that information seeking is based on a series of uncertainty resolutions which lead to a problem solution. There are four steps in the process ...
Information seeking can also be called “active communication behavior.” Actively communicating members of publics look for information and try to understand it when they obtain the information. Thus, publics whose members seek information become aware publics more often than publics whose members do not communicate or who only process ...
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 ...
Health information-seeking behaviour (HISB), also known as health information seeking, health seeking behaviour or health information behaviour, refers to how people look for information about health and illness. [1] HISB is a key strategy for many people to understand their health problems and to cope with illness. [2]
Cognitive models of information retrieval rest on the mix of areas such as cognitive science, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and library science.They describe the relationship between a person's cognitive model of the information sought and the organization of this information in an information system.