An investigation of the search behaviour associated with Ingwersen’s three types of information needs
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An investigation of the search behaviour associated with Ingwersen’s three types of information needs. / Borlund, Pia; Dreier, Sabine .
In: Information Processing & Management, Vol. 50, No. 4, 02.04.2014, p. 493-507.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - An investigation of the search behaviour associated with Ingwersen’s three types of information needs
AU - Borlund, Pia
AU - Dreier, Sabine
PY - 2014/4/2
Y1 - 2014/4/2
N2 - We report a naturalistic interactive information retrieval (IIR) study of 18 ordinary users in the age of 20–25 who carry out everyday-life information seeking (ELIS) on the Internet with respect to the three types of information needs identified by Ingwersen (1986): the verificative information need (VIN), the conscious topical information need (CIN), and the muddled topical information need (MIN). The searches took place in the private homes of the users in order to ensure as realistic searching as possible. Ingwersen (1996) associates a given search behaviour to each of the three types of information needs, which are analytically deduced, but not yet empirically tested. Thus the objective of the study is toinvestigate whether empirical data does, or does not, conform to the predictions derived from the three types of information needs. The main conclusion is that the analytically deduced information search behaviour characteristics by Ingwersen are positively corroborated for this group of test participants who search the Internet as part of ELIS.
AB - We report a naturalistic interactive information retrieval (IIR) study of 18 ordinary users in the age of 20–25 who carry out everyday-life information seeking (ELIS) on the Internet with respect to the three types of information needs identified by Ingwersen (1986): the verificative information need (VIN), the conscious topical information need (CIN), and the muddled topical information need (MIN). The searches took place in the private homes of the users in order to ensure as realistic searching as possible. Ingwersen (1996) associates a given search behaviour to each of the three types of information needs, which are analytically deduced, but not yet empirically tested. Thus the objective of the study is toinvestigate whether empirical data does, or does not, conform to the predictions derived from the three types of information needs. The main conclusion is that the analytically deduced information search behaviour characteristics by Ingwersen are positively corroborated for this group of test participants who search the Internet as part of ELIS.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Information needs
KW - User study
KW - Interactive information retrieval
KW - Internet searching
KW - Ordinary users
KW - Everyday-life information seeking
U2 - 10.1016/j.ipm.2014.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ipm.2014.03.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 50
SP - 493
EP - 507
JO - Information Processing & Management
JF - Information Processing & Management
SN - 0306-4573
IS - 4
ER -
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