2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on descriptive model for information seeking processes
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15500164
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
情報図書館学・人文社会情報学
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Multimedia Education |
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Principal Investigator |
MIWA Makiko National Institute of Multimedia Education, Research and Development Department, Professor, 研究開発部, 教授 (90333541)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2006
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| Keywords | IBG model / information seeking processes / exploratory search / social cognitive theory / digital libraries / information retrieval system / critical incident technique / constant-comparative method |
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| Research Abstract |
This research intended to develop and verify the information behavioral grammar (IBG) model initially developed in 2000 based on phone interviewing and content analysis of AskERIC clients' information seeking processes. The IBG model captures how, on what purposes, and in what situations information-seeking processes are generated, and how these purposes and situations influence over the information seeking processes and their outcomes. As a conceptual model, the IBG model is considered as a bases for developing the next generation of digital libraries which will provide information resources responding to searchers' input of their information needs and contexts.
The conceptual framework of the IBG model was initially developed as hypotheses through the author's dissertation research. The current research is intended to verify the IBG model in order to expand it's transferability into a wider variety of information seeking processes not limited to the users of AskERIC or other digital reference services. The core of the current research consists of content analysis of thirty-one information seeking processes, nice for research, six for teaching and sixteen for personal/family decision making, elicited by face-to-face interviews of ten researchers from a variety of social science domains.
Results indicate that the IBG model fits the patterns identified for social scientists' information-seeking processes for research and teaching. However, we could not obtain reliable data to verify the applicability of the IBG model to their information-seeking processes for personal/family decision making, mainly because these processes were deeply embedded in their everyday life activities and, in most cases, were taken for granted, which made difficult recall of the exact sequence of actions with associated cognitive, affective, social and environmental situations.
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