Contextual Design Methods for Information Interaction in the Workplace

Established methods from user-centered design can be applied to the design of systems that support information interaction in the workplace. In order to gather data about current work practices, a number of different methods have been proposed in studies on information needs and information seeking...

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Published inTʻu shu kuan hsüeh yü tzŭ hsün kʻo hsüeh Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 72 - 78
Main Author Christa Womser-Hacker
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Chinese
Published 台灣 國立臺灣師範大學圖書資訊學研究所 01.04.2016
國立臺灣師範大學
National Taiwan Normal University, Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies
National Taiwan Normal University
Subjects
Case studies
Communities of practice
Information retrieval
Information seeking behavior
Information systems
User needs
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Summary:Established methods from user-centered design can be applied to the design of systems that support information interaction in the workplace. In order to gather data about current work practices, a number of different methods have been proposed in studies on information needs and information seeking behavior, including work-shadowing (Görtz, 2011), diary studies (Elsweiler et al., 2010), in-depth interviews (Kuhlthau, 2003) and questionnaires (Lim, 2009).
ISSN:0363-3640
2224-1574
DOI:10.6245/JLIS.2016.421/700