A behavioral approach to information retrieval system design
Journal of Documentation
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Towards a theoretical framework for information retrieval in an information seeking context
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
The reality of media preferences: do professional groups vary in awareness?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analysing and evaluating usefulness and usability in electronic information services
Journal of Information Science
Structure of Query Modification Process: Branchings
ADMA '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies
Journal of Information Science
Journal of Information Science
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Temporal modeling of group information foraging: An application to emergency response
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Knowledge behaviour and social adoption of innovation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Blended information behaviour in Second Life
Journal of Information Science
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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This paper offers a new, nonlinear model of information-seeking behavior, which contrasts with earlier stage models of information behavior and represents a potential cornerstone for a shift toward a new perspective for understanding user information behavior. The model is based on the findings of a study on interdisciplinary information-seeking behavior. The study followed a naturalistic inquiry approach using interviews of 45 academics. The interview results were inductively analyzed and an alternative framework for understanding information-seeking behavior was developed. This model illustrates three core processes and three levels of contextual interaction, each composed of several individual activities and attributes. These interact dynamically through time in a nonlinear manner. The behavioral patterns are analogous to an artist's palette, in which activities remain available throughout the course of information-seeking. In viewing the processes in this way, neither start nor finish points are fixed, and each process may be repeated or lead to any other until either the query or context determine that information-seeking can end. The interactivity and shifts described by the model show information-seeking to be nonlinear, dynamic, holistic, and flowing. The paper offers four main implications of the model as it applies to existing theory and models, requirements for future research, and the development of information literacy curricula. Central to these implications is the creation of a new nonlinear perspective from which user information-seeking can be interpreted.