Information Seeking Perspective
| Gary Marchionini | |
| INLS 180-02 |
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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |