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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"information behavior"”.
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Information Behavior in Aviation: Distributed Practice on the Flightdeck
Human information behavior has been described as the totality of human behavior in relation to sources and channels of information, including both active and passive information seeking and information use. This includes face-to-face communication as well as passive information reception, with no …
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An Observational Investigation of On-Duty Critical Care Nurses' Information Behavior in a Nonteaching Community Hospital
… post hoc self-report survey studies of nurses' information seeking, there have been no observational studies of the patterns and content of their on-duty information behavior. This study used participant observation and in-context interviews to describe 50 hours of the observable information …
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Visual Design Aspects of Advanced Digital Multimedia Learning Materials: Effects on Learning and Information Behavior in Case of Primary School Children
… the effects of selected visual design aspects of information representation in advanced digital multimedia learning materials (ADMLMs) on learning outcomes and information behavior of primary school children (8-11 years old). It consists of three experimental studies in laboratory conditions, each …
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Busca e uso da informação pelos docentes do Programa de Pós-Graduação do CCHL/UFPB
Describes information behavior, needs and uses, as well as the barriers faced in the information search process, by the faculty of graduate programs of the Humanities Center and Letters (CCHL) campus I UFPB. Of descriptive and qualitative and quantitative, used to collect data mixed questionnaire, …
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Information acquiring-and-sharing in Internet-based environments: an exploratory study of individual user behaviors
Adoption of Internet-based information resources and dissemination tools is rapidly increasing. Given the far-reaching implications of this trend, researchers in library and information science (LIS) are seeking to better understand individual users’ behaviors in these contexts. A user information …
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Information Seeking Among Women Who Are Homeless And Pregnant: A Phenomenological Exploration
Information behavior is a comprehensive term for the interaction’s humans have with information, comprising complex practices rooted within the dynamics of an individual’s everyday personal, social, and cultural contexts. Information science research has noted associations between certain …
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A multi-dimensional entropy model of jazz improvisation for music information retrieval.
… provides a case context for examining information in music; entropy provides a means for representing music for retrieval. Entropy measures are shown to distinguish between different improvisations on the same theme, thus demonstrating their potential for representing jazz information …
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Information, Activity and Social Order in Distributed Work: The Case of Distributed Software Problem Management
… empirically grounded description of the information practices used by a distributed F/OSS development organization to manage software problems, including the first description of a fundamental information object, the bug report network; clearly drawn distinctions between the information …
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Estudos de usuários em periódicos de Ciência da Informação: análise referente ao período 2009-2013
… subject published in six electronic journals in Information Science. The implemented methodology included a literature survey on the Internet in a quantitative and qualitative approach. The journals researched were chosen because they are titles that fit in standard evaluation A1 and B1 Qualis / …
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An ethnographic analysis of adolescent sexual minority website usage: exploring notions of information seeking and sexual identity development
… sexual minorities, examining notions of information seeking and sexual identity development. Sexual information seeking is an important element within human information behavior and is uniquely problematic for young sexual minorities. Utilizing a contemporary gay teen website, this …
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Functional Ontology Construction: A Pragmatic Approach to Addressing Problems Concerning the Individual and the Informing Environment
… environment by means of analysis of the user's behavior and the elements of the environment that have behavioral function. The FOC approach is an application of behavior analytic techniques and concepts to problems within information science. The FOC approach is both an alternative and a …
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Reading selection as information seeking behavior: A case study with adolescent girls.
The aim of this research, Reading Selection as Information Seeking Behavior: A Case Study with Adolescent Girls, was to explore how the experience of reading fiction affects adolescent girls aged 13 through 15, and how that experience changes based upon four activities: journaling, blogging, a …
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Deliberating environmental policy: information seeking and use in Canada's House of Commons standing committees
This case study examines the information practices of Canada’s elected federal representatives who work together within House of Commons standing committees to deliberate environmental issues. We now have new methods to access data on government activities due to the availability of more structured …
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Information behaviors of users of Korean collections: how do they find needed information?
… as stated above. This study will investigate the information behavior of students searching for Korean materials at UMUS. In examining students’ behavior during searching processes for materials in Korean Studies, I will discuss how users utilize the university library for print and e-resources. …
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Uncertainty and information seeking patterns : a test of competing hypotheses in the context of health care reform
… two studies that investigate uncertainty and information seeking in the context of health care reform. Competing uncertainty frameworks (i.e., uncertainty reduction, motivation to reduce uncertainty, predicted outcome value) are integrated in a model and then tested against each other to …
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The Role of Information Seeking and Use in Management Accounting: Exploring the Process of Creating a Budget for Complex Projects.
… accounting studies, draws upon research from the information science domain. Understanding the process of creating a budget, i.e., how information is located, evaluated, and used, can be significant as the quality of the budget as a product (the output from the process) can have a downstream …
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A model of compelled nonuse of information
… here developed from the observation that information science has had no comprehensive understanding of nonuse of information. Without such an understanding, information workers may use the words "nonuse of information" while referring to very different phenomena. This lack of understanding …
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"""It's a microcosm of life"": weaving a web of information and support in an online breast cancer community"
Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-06-23T15:16:12Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Rubenstein_Ellen.doc: 562176 bytes, checksum: fae8ee7babd8b8bb85fbf8ba6223eaed (MD5) Rubenstein_Ellen.pdf: 1160783 bytes, …
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Exploring Chinese celebrity fans’ online information behaviors and understandings of their practices
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Patient expertise & self-management
… self-management can be understood as a set of behaviors including recognizing, treating, and preventing symptoms of illness. The relationship between these concepts is not established in the literature, so this review poses six potential relationship dynamics based on how they are interrelated …
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