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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 January 2010
      26 May 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511626388
      9780521586740
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626388
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      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.509kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Computer Science, Computing and Society, Scientific Computing, Scientific Software
      Series:
      Cambridge Series on Human-Computer Interaction (9)
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    Subjects:
    Computer Science, Computing and Society, Scientific Computing, Scientific Software
    Series:
    Cambridge Series on Human-Computer Interaction (9)
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    Significant amounts of our time and energy are devoted to creating, managing, and avoiding information. Computers and telecommunications technology have extended our regard for information and are driving changes in how we learn, work, and play. One result of these developments is that skills and strategies for storing and retrieving information have become more essential and more pervasive in our culture. This book considers how electronic technologies have changed these skills and strategies and augmented the fundamental human activity of information seeking. The author makes a case for creating new interface designs that allow the information seeker to choose what strategy to apply according to their immediate needs. Such systems may be designed by providing information seekers with alternative interface mechanisms for displaying and manipulating multiple levels of representation for information objects.Information Seeking in Electronic Environments is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in information science, human-computer interaction, and education, as well as for designers of information retrieval systems and interfaces for digital libraries and archives.

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    ‘Marchionini has drawn together a number of important threads from the field of human-computer interaction. This is a scholarly work which contains a considerable depth of discussion … it will certainly repay careful study.’

    Source: Managing Information

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