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Cool, Colleen – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Describes a model of information retrieval as social interaction, which distinguishes between three types of information interaction goals: (1) task-oriented; (2) topically oriented; and (3) those centered around situation assessment (SA). Results suggest that SA is an important cognitive activity in new information retrieval environments; SA…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Sources
