Open AccessPerspectives of information seeking and gathering behavior in high‐risk professions
Author(s) -
Blair David,
O'Connor Brian C.,
Bonnici Laurie J.,
Chilton Bradley S.,
Aksakal Baris
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.1450410184
Subject(s) - information seeking , psychology , computer science , knowledge management , sociology , information retrieval
Information seeking is a part of daily life; for thousands of years it has happened without web sites, catalogs, or most of the formal tools of the LIS world. The members of this panel look to daily life and street level scenarios to illuminate possible enhancements €or our understanding of searching behavior. On-the-fly decision making, information juggling, analysis under duress, and the language of daily life come under consideration. Humans are capable of thinking deductively and using deterministic systems, yet they conduct much of their lives thinking analogically and acting on the basis of experience, hunches, and best guesses greater consideration of these abilities should enhance retrieval system design.