Exploring information seeking behaviour in a digital museum context

IIiX'08: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 110-115

  Skov, Mette ^a   Ingwersen, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cultural heritage; Information seeking behaviour; Integrative information seeking and retrieval; User study

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATUM; CULTURAL HERITAGE; DIGITAL MUSEUMS; INFORMATION NEEDS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR; INTEGRATIVE INFORMATION SEEKING AND RETRIEVAL; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; ON-LINE QUESTIONNAIRES; QUALITATIVE DATUM; TASK-BASED; USER STUDY; VIRTUAL MUSEUMS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 62949230087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414694.1414719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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