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
Information needs: a person-in-situation approach
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
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
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 concept of relevance in IR
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Measuring online information seeking context, Part 1: Background and method
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Measuring online information seeking context, Part 1: Background and method
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Examining users' knowledge change in the task completion process
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 purpose of this study was 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 second part, results and implications of this research are presented. Part 1 (Kelly, 2006) discussed previous literature on information seeking context and behavior, situated the current study within this literature, and described the naturalistic, longitudinal research design that was used to examine and measure the online information seeking context of seven users during a 14-week period. Results provide support for the value of the method in studying online information seeking context, the relative importance of various measures of context, how these measures change over time, and, finally, the relationship between these measures. In particular, results demonstrate significant differences in distributions of usefulness ratings according to task and topic. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.