2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Creating Web-pathfinders Providing Reliability and Convenience in the Format According to the Information-seeking Behavior Model

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21500238
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
Research Institution	Oita University
Principal Investigator	NAKASHIMA Makoto 大分大学, 工学部・知能情報システム工学科, 准教授 (00253774)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	ITO Tetsuro 大分大学, 工学部・知能情報システム工学科, 教授 (30029558)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	情報サービス / パスファインダー
Research Abstract	A Web-pathfinder creating support system was build for novice learners, who are unfamiliar with the information resources on libraries and the Web, to actively engage the learners in their own learning. The system collects the bibliographic information of documents, the locations of Web resources, and keywords related to a particular topic, via reliable information resources on the Web. The collected information is displayed as a Web page in the format according to the widely cited information-seeking behavior model of university students so that the learners can glance through the page. The effect of using the support system was clarified by the experiment in which university students freely created their own Web-pathfinders.

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