Information Behavior

Spink, Amanda

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11497-7

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“…There have been writers who have suggested that there may be within individuals an "information disposition" (Childers, 1982, p. 104); others have suggested an evolutionary imperative (Spink, 2010); there are those that suggest that when seeking information humans are "gap-bridging" (Savolainen, 2000, pp. 43-45) and others suggest that "all information processing is emotional" (Dodge, 1991, p. 59).…”

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Information-seeking to support wellbeing: A pilot study of New Zealand men

Wellstead¹,

Norriss²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Abstract:In New Zealand, compared to women men have poor health outcomes in a range of domains. Men also report barriers (both personal and structural) in seeking information to improve health and wellbeing. This paper reports a pilot project that investigated the informationseeking of New Zealand men during episodes of mental and physical ill health. The research investigated the ways in which information can be provided to encourage men to engage in information-seeking in a more timely way to improve their health and wellbeing. Results suggest that New Zealand men face considerable barriers accessing information and support and that the pathways to care are often unclear or absent. These findings demonstrate challenges and opportunities to service providers in terms of engaging men. Further research opportunities are also discussed.

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Information-seeking to support wellbeing: A pilot study of New Zealand men

Wellstead¹,

Norriss²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Information Overload

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A theory of information need for information retrieval that connects information to knowledge

Cole

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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This article proposes a theory of information need for information retrieval (IR). Information need traditionally denotes the start state for someone seeking information, which includes information search using an IR system. There are two perspectives on information need. The dominant, computer science perspective is that the user needs to find an answer to a well-defined question which is easy for the user to formulate into a query to the system. Ironically, information science's best known model of information need (Taylor, 1968) deems it to be a "black box"-unknowable and nonspecifiable by the user in a query to the information system. Information science has instead devoted itself to studying eight adjacent or surrogate concepts (information seeking, search and use; problem, problematic situation and task; sense making and evolutionary adaptation/information foraging). Based on an analysis of these eight adjacent/surrogate concepts, we create six testable propositions for a theory of information need. The central assumption of the theory is that while computer science sees IR as an information-or answer-finding system, focused on the user finding an answer, an information science or useroriented theory of information need envisages a knowledge formulation/acquisition system.

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Information Behavior

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