...Barun Hwang; Sue Yeon Syn; Sanghee Oh Purpose This research examines how caregivers' information-seeking behaviors have been studied by analyzing research designs, theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, target populations, caregivers' information needs, information access and patterns...

...Qiuyan Guo Purpose This paper investigates how Chinese celebrity fans create and share “unneeded” interpretation-centered information within their communities online. Fans’ information activities and their approach to the information needs of both like-minded and dissenting community members...

...Spyros Kolyvas; Konstantina Martzoukou; Petros A. Kostagiolas Purpose There is a current research gap based on exploring the information behaviour of visual artists (professional, semi-professional and amateur) and, particularly, the impact of their information needs satisfaction...

... mortality and limited access to essential services. Understanding autistic people’s information needs and information journeys is therefore crucial. Design/methodology/approach The research consisted of two consecutive qualitative studies. First, a sample of posts from an online autism group, made...

...Samuel Dodson Purpose This paper explores the information needs and behaviors of undergraduate engineers. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports on a qualitative study employing semi-structured interviews with 18 students. Findings The study identified the types of information needs...

...Spyros Kolyvas; Petros A. Kostagiolas; Konstantina Martzoukou Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate how the information needs satisfaction of visual art teachers affects their creativity. Visual art teachers’ information seeking behaviour and specifically the association of information...

...Efpraxia D. Zamani; Laura Sbaffi; Khumbo Kalua Purpose The aim of this study was to address the unmet information needs of Malawian informal carers. We report on a three-year project which we co-created with informal carers, medical doctors and NGOs with the view to disseminate health advisory...

...Sarah Hargreaves; Laura Sbaffi; Nigel Ford Purpose This paper both supports previous findings relating to, and presents new insights into: the information needs and the information seeking processes of a sample of informal caregivers of people with dementia (in relation to their own needs...

...Dan Wu; Shu Fan; Shengyi Yao; Shuang Xu Purpose Ethnic minorities (EMs), who make up a sizable proportion of multilingual users, are more likely to browse and search in their native language. It is helpful to identify multilingual users' information needs to provide public digital cultural...

... Collaborative authorship Information needs Video games It has become commonplace to note that video games have become one of the signature emergent media forms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In the 50 years since video games became widely available in the marketplace (both Pong...

... of knowledge about this crime. It makes a new contribution to the field of information practices by introducing the context of enforced disappearances using the example of Colombia, identifying a significant information-seeking process. Information seeking Colombia Information needs Communities...

... represents an active “mastery of life” role to solve people's everyday problems (Savolainen,1995 , pp. 259–294) in an emerging crisis, human information needs are likely to be different from those under normal circumstances (Du, 2014 ; McKenzie, 2003 ; Savolainen, 2008). A transmissible disease like...

.../methodology/approach 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants from the Croatian community in New Zealand. Findings The main findings reveal two categories of information needs related to a home country: internally motivated and externally motivated. Information is accessed through...

... of this broadening of focus, much of information research is still premised by the idea of the primacy of an (explicit or implicit) information need that is leading people to seek information (Case and Given, 2016). The needs can be implicit and searching accidental (Agarwal, 2015) and embedded in a certain practice...

... Recommendation Animation Anime Content analysis Information needs Query analysis Hyerim Cho can be contacted at: chohr113@uw.edu 18 08 2017 19 03 2018 03 05 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only...

... The purpose of this paper is to explore the leisure information behaviour of motor sport enthusiasts, examining: their information needs; their information seeking and sharing; what personal information they had; and their satisfaction with their information seeking and personal information management efforts...

...Jacob Dankasa Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the pattern of everyday life information needs of a group of people in an area with limited access to information, and to investigate how the major dimensions of the everyday life information seeking (ELIS) model apply...

... of information needs satisfaction in musical creativity. A number of studies in information science literature have been carried out attempting to model cognitive, affective, behavioural and contextual factors associated with music information seeking behaviour. However, only few studies have addressed...

..., including the Web Accessibility Initiative, the Digital Signature Initiative and the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project. © MCB UP Limited 1999 World Wide Web Information needs Data processing Journal of Documentation, Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1999 © Aslib, The Association...