Information Seeking in Electronic Environments [Paperback]

Describes how the strategies we use to locate information have begun to change as a result of computers and telecommunications technology.Information Seeking in Electronic Environments provides a theory of how people seek information and how technology has begun to augment how they are able to do so. It provides guidance to researchers and students who apply computing to problems in information retrieval and learning, and to designers who invent interfaces for retrieval systems.Information Seeking in Electronic Environments provides a theory of how people seek information and how technology has begun to augment how they are able to do so. It provides guidance to researchers and students who apply computing to problems in information retrieval and learning, and to designers who invent interfaces for retrieval systems.In the computer age, it is essential for individuals to develop skills and strategies for manipulating, storing, and retrieving electronic information. This book considers how electronic technologies have changed these skills and strategies and augmented the fundamental human activity of information seeking. Writing from the point of view of the user rather than the computer, the author makes a case for creating new interface designs that allow information seekers to choose what strategy to apply according to their immediate needs. Such systems may be designed by providing information seekers with alternative interface mechanisms for displaying and manipulating multiple levels of representation for information objects. This book is multidisciplinary in approach and aims to bridge the perspectives of information science, computer science and education. It will be essential reading for researchers and graduate students in these fields.Information and information seeking; 2. Information seekers and electronic environments; 3. Information-seeking perspective and framework; 4. Foundations for personal information infrastructures: 5. Information-seeking knowl3Ð