Investigation of information encountering in the controlled research environment

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1013-1025

  Erdelez, Sanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Information behavior; Information encountering; Information seeking; Opportunistic acquisition of information; User studies; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION ENCOUNTERING; INFORMATION SEEKING; OPPORTUNISTIC ACQUISITION OF INFORMATION; USER STUDIES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 4243181219     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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