Human information seeking and design of information systems.
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Empirical foundations of information and software sciences.
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Models of my life
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma
Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma
Person and context in information seeking: interactions between cognitive and task variables
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
The Technology Payoff: How to Profit with Empowered Workers in the Information Age
The Technology Payoff: How to Profit with Empowered Workers in the Information Age
On the web at home: information seeking and web searching in the home environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Fields and pathways: contrasting or complementary views of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
"Just the facts ma'am?": a contextual approach to the legal information use environment
DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
Engineers and the Web: An analysis of real life gaps in information usage
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Source preferences in the context of seeking problem-specific information
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Internet information and communication behavior during a political moment: The Iraq war, March 2003
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Fields and pathways: Contrasting or complementary views of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Modeling citizenship information behavior and political action
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Image needs in the context of image use: An exploratory study
Journal of Information Science
Context features and their use in information retrieval
FDIA'09 Proceedings of the Third BCS-IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
The scope of external information-seeking under uncertainty: An individual-level study
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Temporal modeling of group information foraging: An application to emergency response
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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While surprisingly little has been written about context at a meaningful level, context is central to most theoretical approaches to information seeking. In this essay I explore in more detail three senses of context. First, I look at context as equivalent to the situation in which a process is immersed. Second, I discuss contingency approaches that detail active ingredients of the situation that have specific, predictable effects. Third, I examine major frameworks for meaning systems. Then, I discuss how a deeper appreciation of context can enhance our understanding of the process of information seeking by examining two vastly different contexts in which it occurs: organizational and cancer-related, an exemplar of everyday life information seeking. This essay concludes with a discussion of the value that can be added to information seeking research and theory as a result of a deeper appreciation of context, particularly in terms of our current multi-contextual environment and individuals taking an active role in contextualizing.