Information seeking

De Vos, A., Buyens, D., Schalk, R. (2005). Making sense of a new employment relationship Psychological contract-related information seeking and the role of work values and locus of control. Mterruitional Journal of Selection and Assessment, 75(1), 41-52. 

One of the most obvious differences in the behavior of a new employee over the initial period of employment is their information seeking behavior. In order to deal with the uncertainty and lack of familiarity associated with entry into a new job, a new employee is likely to engage in a range of information seeking behaviors. As... 

Understand new employee initial behavior Manage new employee behavior and alert co-workers to Information seeking behavior Desire to change role/tasks Employee silence/voicing Random acts of helping... 

Miller, V. D., Jablin, F. M. (1991). Information seeking during organizational entry Influences, tactics, and a model of the process. Academy of Management Review, 76(1), 92-120. 

C. M. Brown, Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists in the Electronic Information Age Astronomers, Chemists, Mathematicians, and Physicists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(10) 929-943 (1999). 

Embedded lead users not only share their information actively, but also are contacted by R D frequently. In many cases I find that developers draw on internal users rather than externals, as they are easier accessible (LeisureS Healths). Adjusted specification, ideas, and prototypes can be discussed with users directly inside the boundaries of the firm. Cutting out external users in some stages of the innovation process speeds up these phases and involves frequent information seeking by R D, tapping the knowledge of embedded lead users ... 

Marking should combine with other techniques and tools for data exploration and analysis available in the interface, to support the process of information seeking. 

Zhao, H., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B., Duraiswami, R. Sonification of Geo-Referenced Data for Auditory Information Seeking Design Principle and Pilot Study. In Int. Conf. Auditory Display, Sydney, Australia (2004)... 

Shneiderman, B. Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking, in Readings in Information Visualization Using Vision to Think. Morgan Kaufmaim, San Francisco... 

Attfield, S., Blandford, A., Dowell, J. Information seeking in the context of writing a design psychology interpretation of the problematic situation. Journal of Documentation 59(4), 430-453 (2003)... 

Information Seeking searehii fm evidence, facts, or knowledge by idenufying re lev am sources and gathering objective, subjective, historical, and current data from those sources f knew [ needed to look up/study."... 

Emotions are adaptive in the sense that they lead to arousal and increased and redirected attention and information seeking. The individual will interrupt the ongoing activity to prepare for flight or fight. When in an emotional state, the operator will focus his or her attention on information sources (cues) associated with the emotional state and disregard cues that are not associated with it. Increased cognitive activity towards possible ways of handling the situation takes place. There is a tendency to make fast and what may finally turn out to have been premature decisions. 

How Engineers Find Information and the Information-Seeking Process... 

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