A qualitative study of information seeking and use in the professional workplace context : using the sense-making approach
Although many researchers agree to the importance of adopting a "situational" approach to study information seeking and use, what they mean by "situational" differs. Most user studies define "workplace domain" as a "situation", and expect to find constancies o...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-23572023-03-04T00:30:49Z A qualitative study of information seeking and use in the professional workplace context : using the sense-making approach Cheuk, Bonnie Wai-yi. School of Computer Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval Although many researchers agree to the importance of adopting a "situational" approach to study information seeking and use, what they mean by "situational" differs. Most user studies define "workplace domain" as a "situation", and expect to find constancies of information needs, information seeking and use behaviors for people belonging to the same workplace domain across time. This study aims to adopt an alternative "situational" perspective, by studying individual's information seeking and use behaviors as embedded in time, and examine how these behaviors change as situations change. Doctor of Philosophy (SCE) 2008-09-17T09:00:54Z 2008-09-17T09:00:54Z 2000 2000 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/2357 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf |
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Although many researchers agree to the importance of adopting a "situational" approach to study information seeking and use, what they mean by "situational" differs. Most user studies define "workplace domain" as a "situation", and expect to find constancies of information needs, information seeking and use behaviors for people belonging to the same workplace domain across time. This study aims to adopt an alternative "situational" perspective, by studying individual's information seeking and use behaviors as embedded in time, and examine how these behaviors change as situations change. |
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