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Peer reviewedCole, Charles; Cantero, Pablo; Ungar, Andras – Information Processing & Management, 2000
This article focuses on a study of undergraduates writing an essay for a remedial writing course that tested two devices, an uncertainty expansion device and an uncertainty reduction device. Highlights include Kuhlthau's information search process model, and enabling technology devices for the information needs of information retrieval system…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Peer reviewedYoon, Kyunghye; Nilan, Michael S. – Information Processing & Management, 1999
The paper reports the results of a preliminary study of interpersonal information seeking (IS) interactions between a user and a human information source. Study showed that users specify their information needs (uncertainty) largely in terms of what they know (certainty) during the interaction. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Seeking, Information Systems, Information Utilization
Peer reviewedDervin, Brenda – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Explores the implications of articulating the bridges that are built, usually implicitly, between metatheory and method, and between these and their ultimate interests, the doing of research; the purpose is to articulate the uses of methodology. Suggests that there is lacking a vocabulary for talking about methodology which attends to the…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Seeking, Information Theory, Information Utilization
