xviii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Machine generated contents note: SECTION I INTRODUCTION -- 1.Introduction: New Directions in Information Behaviour / Jannica Heinstrom -- Introduction -- An Evolutionary and Developmental Conception of Information Behaviour -- Book Overview -- References -- SECTION II RESEARCH HISTORY AND OVERVIEW -...

Contents note continued: 3.2.2.The Users and Uses of Meta-Synthesis -- 3.2.3.Meta-Synthesis - Expectations -- 3.3.Methods - Overview of Meta-Synthesis Methods -- 3.3.1.Meta-Ethnography -- 3.3.2.Meta-Study -- 3.3.2.1.Critical Interpretive Synthesis -- 3.3.2.2.Realist Synthesis -- 3.4.Applying Meta-Sy...

Contents note continued: 4.Weaving the Threads of Experience into Human Information Interaction (HII): Probing User Experience (UX) for New Directions in Information Behaviour / Heather L. O'Brien -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.User Experience: An Overview -- 4.2.1.What Is User Experience? -- 4.2.2.Conc...

Contents note continued: 5.Into the Land of Adolescent Metacognitive Knowledge During the Information Search Process: A Metacognitive Ethnography / Leanne Bowler -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.The Information Search Process -- 5.3.Metacognitive Knowledge -- 5.4.Methods -- 5.4.1.Pilot Study -- 5.4.2.The...

Contents note continued: 5.5.1.9.Pulling Back and Reflecting -- 5.5.1.10.Scaffolding -- 5.5.1.11.Understanding Curiosity -- 5.5.1.12.Understanding Memory -- 5.5.1.13.Understanding Time and Effort -- 5.6.Mapping Adolescent Metacognitive Knowledge to the Affective and Behavioral Dimensions of the Info...

Contents note continued: 6.6.Personality Assessments -- 6.7.Self-Efficacy and Anxiety -- 6.8.Caveats on Tests Generally -- 6.9.Information Styles -- 6.10.Conclusions -- References -- SECTION IV CONTEXTUAL DIMENSIONS -- 7.The Theory of Information Worlds and Information Behaviour / Paul T. Jaeger --...

Contents note continued: 8.3.Person-in-Environment: Conceptual Framework -- 8.4.Person-in-Environment: Research Methods -- 8.4.1.Data Collection: Secondary Analysis -- 8.4.2.Data Linking: Geographic Information Systems -- 8.4.3.Data Analysis: Structural Equation Modelling -- 8.5.Empirical Study -- 8...

Contents note continued: 9.3.2.2.Exploring for the Experience -- 9.4.Causal-Leisure Information Behaviours -- 9.4.1.A Revised Model of Information Behaviour -- 9.4.2.Casual-Leisure Examples -- 9.4.2.1.Time-Wasting Scenario -- 9.4.2.2.Hedonistic-Need Scenario -- 9.4.2.3.Experience-Focused Scenario --...

Contents note continued: 10.2.4.Five-Year-Old Children -- 10.3.Information Behaviour Abilities of Four- and Five-Year Old Children -- 10.3.1.Web Searching by Young Children -- 10.3.1.1.Creating Web Queries and Spelling -- 10.3.1.2.Browsing -- 10.3.1.3.Query Formulation and Reformulation/ Advanced Se...

Contents note continued: 11.4.Impacts of Spiritual Information -- 11.5.Spiritual Information Study -- 11.5.1.Research Design -- 11.5.2.Data Collection -- 11.5.3.Documents -- 11.5.4.Data Processing -- 11.5.5.Data Analysis -- 11.6.Findings -- 11.6.1.Target of Impacts -- 11.6.1.1.Organisms -- 11.6.1.2....