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Effective Methods for Studying Information-Seeking and Use: SIG USE Research Symposium
ASIST Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 3, 2001, 12:00noon - 6:30pmOverview Good data on how users seek out and utilize information can be invaluable
in efforts to enhance information management and retrieval systems. This workshop will explore several innovative, effective research methods aimed at better understanding information-seeking behaviors.
Agenda
Contributed papers:
Methods for studying information use by individuals
- Methodology for a project examining cognitive categories for library
information in young children, by Linda C. Cooper
- "I spent 1 ½ hours sifting through one large box....": diaries as
information behaviour of the archives user, by Elaine G. Toms and Wendy
Duff
- Beyond logs and surveys: in-depth measures of people's Web use skills,
by Eszter Hargittai
Contributed papers:
Methods for studying information use by groups
- Complimentary
user-centered methodologies for information seeking and use: system's
design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE), by
P. Bryan Heidorn, Bharat Mehra, and Mary Lokhaiser
- Following experts
at work in their own information spaces: using observational methods
to develop tools for the digital library, by Paul Gorman, Mary Lavelle,
Lois Delcambre, and David Maier
- Scenarios in the
Afya Project as a participatory action research (PAR) tool for studying
information seeking and use across the digital divide, by Bharat Mehra,
Ann Peterson Bishop, Imani Bazzell, and Cynthia Smith
Additional panel/discussion
sessions
Moderator
Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
