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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Information seeking"”.
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Extensible information-seeking environments.
A large class of user interfaces for information retrieval can be characterised as over-determined. That is, the user interface stringently prescribes the ordering of dialogs and what information must be entered and how results should be inspected. One consequence is a constraining, step-by-step …
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KidsQuestions: Assisting Children’s Digital Information Seeking
… thesis aims at supporting children’s digital information seeking. Children are known to have difficulties effectively using the information technologies that are available to them. We hypothesize that an interaction model specifically designed to align with the inquiry-based pedagogies common …
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Information Seeking in a Virtual Learning Environment
… this study examines the applicability of the Information Search Process (ISP) Model in the context of a virtual learning environment. This study confirms that students given an information seeking task in a virtual learning environment do exhibit the stages indicated by the ISP Model. The …
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Information Seeking Behaviors of Michigan Family Physicians
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004227.pdf: 11421400 bytes, checksum: 85324f98fe90c797150cd254895ef0ea (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Visuals, inferences, and consumers' biased information seeking
… consumers’ inclination to select congenial information in customer reviews, and whether consumers’ inferential beliefs and brand attitudes mediate such effects. In Study 3, I test consumers’ cognitive responses as another mediator between product visuals and brand attitudes, and the …
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University Students and the Internet: Information Seeking Study
This study explored university students' information needs and seeking behaviors on the Internet. A Web-based survey was administrated one time. Two hundred responses were received from the target sample within the two weeks period of the study. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, …
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Secondary school students and the information seeking process
… secondary school students held of the information seeking process and what behaviours the students used to initiate and carry out an information search. The study was conducted in a secondary school in North Central British Columbia, with students from Two Grade 8 and two Grade 10 …
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Understanding information seeking behavior through network traffic analysis
Many of today's information workers use the Internet as a valuable first-choice source for new knowledge. As such, Internet based information seeking is a key part of how information workers find information. This study develops techniques to quantify the information seeking patterns of information …
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Community College Adjuncts: From Information Seeking to Identity Formation
This phenomenological study addressed the transitions of biology and chemistry adjunct faculty, with full or part-time positions outside of academia, as they navigate the transition between their workplaces and the academic environment and also transition toward becoming confident and competent …
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An agentic approach to information seeking for knowledge acquisition
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Personality and the information seeking efforts of potential investors
… or not Americans feel they have sufficient information or knowledge to make mutual fund investing decisions, more and more investors are forced to make these choices if they wish to invest for future goals like retirement. The problem for policymakers is deciding how to provide information …
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An ethnographic investigation of information seeking in the primary classroom
… study that was undertaken to investigate the information-seeking behaviour of primary school children. A review of the literature in the area of child information behaviour was undertaken. Five key areas of interest were identified for investigation: how children define success in information …
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Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Hispanics in New York City
… population in terms of access to online health information. The specific aims of this descriptive, correlational study were to examine factors associated with online health information seeking behaviors of Hispanics and to examine the association between online health information seeking …
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A Model of Scientists’ Information Seeking and a User-Interface Design
Information systems that are available today do not optimally address the information-seeking behaviour of scholars, particularly those who belong to scientific communities; as a result, scholarly discovery is often cumbersome and incomplete. The hypothesis of this study is that an …
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A model of scientists' information seeking and a user-interface design
Information systems that are available today do not optimally address the information-seeking behaviour of scholars, particularly those who belong to scientific communities; as a result, scholarly discovery is often cumbersome and incomplete. The hypothesis of this study is that an …
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Human Pattern Recognition and Information Seeking in Simulated Fault Diagnosis Tasks
An experiment was conducted in which thirty-four subjects solved a total of 5440 simulated fault diagnosis problems over a period of ten weeks. Two simulations were used; a context-free simulation known as TASK and a context-specific simulation known as FAULT. Results showed that context-free …
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A study of parental information seeking and implications for school choice
This study was designed to investigate the information seeking process of parents in choosing schools of preferences. To accomplish this goal, this research pursued parents living in Williamsburg-James City County, Virginia, where families presently are unable to choose schools within the public …
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