A behavioral approach to information retrieval system design
Journal of Documentation
Information retrieval interaction
Information retrieval interaction
Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Medical students' personal knowledge, searching proficiency, and database use in problem solving
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Multiple search sessions model of end-user behavior: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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 needs: a person-in-situation approach
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
A study of the use of variables in information retrieval user studies
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Towards the identification of the optimal number of relevance categories
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information and information sources in tasks of varying complexity
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The effects of topic familiarity on information search behavior
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Information seeking and mediated searching. Part 2: uncertainty and its correlates
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information seeking and mediated searching study. Part 3: successive searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Multitasking information seeking and searching processes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Issues of context in information retrieval (IR): an introduction to the special issue
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Display time as implicit feedback: understanding task effects
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Measuring online information seeking context, Part 2: Findings and discussion
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Measuring online information seeking context, Part 2: Findings and discussion
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Contextual factors for finding similar experts
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium
Investigating variation in querying behavior for image searches on the web
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
The Goldilocks effect: task-centred assessments of e-government information
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Context features and their use in information retrieval
FDIA'09 Proceedings of the Third BCS-IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
Modeling the evolution of context in information retrieval
FDIA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd BCS IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
Examining users' knowledge change in the task completion process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Context is one of the most important concepts in information seeking and retrieval research. However, the challenges of studying context are great; thus, it is more common for researchers to use context as a post hoc explanatory factor, rather than as a concept that drives inquiry. The purposes of this study were to develop a method for collecting data about information seeking context in natural online environments, and identify which aspects of context should be considered when studying online information seeking. The study is reported in two parts. In this, the first part, the background and method are presented. Results and implications of this research are presented in Part 2 (Kelly, in press). Part 1 discusses previous literature on information seeking context and behavior and situates the current work within this literature. This part further describes the naturalistic, longitudinal research design that was used to examine and measure the online information seeking contexts of users during a 14-week period. In this design, information seeking context was characterized by a user's self-identified tasks and topics, and several attributes of these, such as the length of time the user expected to work on a task and the user's familiarity with a topic. At weekly intervals, users evaluated the usefulness of the documents that they viewed, and classified these documents according to their tasks and topics. At the end of the study, users provided feedback about the study method. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.