Information Seeking Task

An Information Seeking Task is a semantic processing task that requires the navigation through semi-structured information.

• Example(s):
  • a Strategic Reading Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Pleasure Reading Task.
  • an Information Creation Task.
• See: Seeking Task, Information, Reading Task, Information Seeking Strategy, Information Seeker.

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References

= 1997

• (1997, Marchionini) ⇒ Gary Marchionini. (1997). “Information Seeking in Electronic Environments, Part 5." Cambridge University Press, ISBN:0521586747

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