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Characterizing environmental information users
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010AbstractThe information seeking and use characteristics of three groups of individuals interested in environmental information are described using a data consolidation technique known in the human‐computer interaction field as “persona”. These user archetypes show differences in the information sources sought, information behaviors shown, and in the ...
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Information metrics and user studies
Aslib Proceedings, 2003Three questions – what can be studied; how can studies be done; and what can be measured – drive research methods and help to identify information metrics for user studies. User studies can investigate user needs, search strategies, or preferences.
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User involvement and user satisfaction with information-seeking activity
European Journal of Information Systems, 2005This paper presents the result of an empirical study that investigates user involvement and user satisfaction in the context of information-seeking activity. This study adopts the definition of user involvement as the psychological state of the importance and personal relevance that users attach to a given system.
Paulus Insap Santosa +2 more
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User profiles for information retrieval
1991An information retrieval system retrieves a set of bibliographic citations in response to a user query. The user formulates a query by selecting keywords that express his/her information needs. In query formulation, different persons may use same terms to imply different meaning based on their background and experience.
Sanjiv K. Bhatia +2 more
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The characteristics of users and non‐users of a kiosk information system
Aslib Proceedings, 2004Touch‐screen kiosks are located in a variety of locations to provide the public with ready access to health information. This paper examines, via a questionnaire, the characteristics of adult users of a surgery‐based kiosk. The Esk Medical Centre is in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. Just under 200 questionnaires were returned and analysed.
David Nicholas +2 more
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Information seeking expressions of users
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984AbstractFive types of information seeking expressions of users are identified by an analysis of a sample of such expressions and of analogous expressions in another social context. The treatment of these expressions in the literature of information retrieval iFive types of information seeking expressions of users are identified by an analysis of a ...
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Internal users and internal information
1991In Chapter 10 we discussed external users of information, their information needs and the ways in which they used the accounting information available. This information was derived from the financial reports via the annual accounts of the enterprises being analysed.
Aidan Berry, Robin Jarvis
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Information owners, custodians and users
Information Management & Computer Security, 1996Defines a frequently encountered method for assigning information security responsibilities involving three terms: “owners”; “custodians”; and “users”. The objective of this responsibility assignment is clearly to indicate “where the buck stops”; owners being ultimately responsible for certain information, including its security.
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User model-based information filtering
1997The IFT (Information Filtering Tool) project has the goal of developing new approaches to information filtering which are based on user modeling techniques for building and managing the representation of the user information preferences. In this paper we describe three prototypes which have been developed and evaluated within the project.
ASNICAR F. A., DI FANT M., TASSO, Carlo
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Evaluating User Studies in Information Access
2005Systems enabling Information Access whether it be; a file browser, a retrieval engine, a mobile device providing content, a personalized agent, etc, need to be evaluated appropriately for the discipline to be considered a science. The problem of how to appropriately evaluate such systems is even more problematic when the evaluation is conducted with ...
Bailey, Alex +2 more
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