Exploring Context in Information Behavior: Seeker, Situation, Surroundings, and Shared Identities

by Naresh Agarwal and Naresh Agarwal

Book Overview

The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in understanding, to the search for information from one or more sources to fill that gap, to the use of that information to complete a task at hand or to satisfy a curiosity, as well as other behaviors such as avoiding information or finding information serendipitously. Designers of mechanisms, tools, and computer-based systems to facilitate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681736098
• ISBN13: 9781681736099
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.3"