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Information Seeking Perspective
  • Gary Marchionini
  • INLS 180-02
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Personal Information Infrastructure
  • A collection of interacting mental models for:
    • specific information systems;
    • events, experiences, and domains of knowledge;
    • general cognitive skills (e.g., inferencing, recognizing salience) and specific cognitive skills related to organizing and accessing information (e.g., filing rules, reading);
    • material resources such as information systems, money and time;
    • metacognitive resources for planning and monitoring thought and action; and
    • attitudes toward information seeking and knowledge acquisition.
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Information Seeking
  • Life is an analog process
    • Continuous, accretional =>history=>planning
    • Temporal, periodic=>highs/lows
  • Information seeking is a human problem solving activity dependent on communication and/or interaction


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Key Information Processes
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Information Seeking Factors
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Interactivity
  • The degree of interactivity is related to the number of cycles and branches exhibited in the information-seeking process
  • Analytical search aims to maximize planning and minimize interactivity
  • Browsing aims to minimize planning and maximize interactivity