The Information Quest: A Dynamic Model of User's Information Needs.
- Resource Type
- Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Speeches/Meeting Papers
- Authors
- Kantor, Paul B.; Boros, Endre; Melamed, Benjamin; Menkov, Vladimir
- Source
- Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting. 1999 36:536-545.
- Subject
- Feedback
Higher Education
Information Retrieval
Information Seeking
Information Systems
Models
Online Searching
User Needs (Information)
Users (Information)
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
Describes a model of information seeking/retrieval in which the user's quest is seen as a generalized abstract "response function" representing the user's response to the information delivered by the system. The concept of an information quest, "Q," is illustrated with data collected in the Ant World Project at Rutgers University (New Jersey). (AEF)