Human Information Behavior

By Thomas D. Wilson. Informing Sci. Int. J. an Emerg. Transdiscipl., 2000

1,575 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Information Systems and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f393bbfdac03c71f567887513c0e2687df8cd412

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Citations in the corpus

• Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour (2003, background): “Understanding of psychological characteristics can shed light on both variability and patterns in information seeking ( Wilson, 2000).”
• Differences and similarities in information seeking: children and adults as Web users (2002, background): “The fact that graduate students used a search engine with a simple interface may have added to their higher performance. Examination of children’s and graduate students’ information seeking from the cognitive, physical, and affective perspectives provided insights into their traversal activities in ”
• THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS ON INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF STUDENTS (2010, background): “…library science personnel, researcher, curriculum constructors, and teachers and theorists from various disciplines and fields in many decades for a thorough investigation into the area (Chatman 2000; Cole 2000; Dervin 1992; Ford 2004; Kuhlthau 1993; Nahl 2001; Todd 1999; and Wilson 2000; 1999).”
• Information grounds and the use of need-based services by immigrants in Queens, New York: A context-based, outcome evaluation approach (2004, background): “…when identifying his or her own needs for information, searching for such information in any way, and using or transferring that information,” which Wilson (2000) later rephrased as “the totality of human behavior in relation to sources and channels of information, including both active and…”
• A Survey of Model Architectures in Information Retrieval (2025, unknown): “This shifting paradigm raises questions about task formulation, evaluation, and system optimization: • Current IR research is grounded in human information-seeking behavior (Wilson, 2000).”