ABSTRACT
Information-seeking in context: using a model of journalistic authoring to explain information-seeking phenomena.
Simon Attfield
All tasks occur within a context. And as with many tasks, an important part of the context
for information seeking is the wider task or goal that motivates it; examples include
report writing or decision making. Part of the value of considering a task within a
cognitive account of the task that motivates it is that this can provide leverage in
explaining observed lower level phenomena.
In this talk I will try to show how a cognitive
model of journalistic authoring framed as a design task can offer explanations of key
information seeking phenomena, namely: information need uncertainty and information need
evolution. In doing so I will bring together literature on information seeking and also
the psychology of writing. I will also discuss an empirical programme designed to evaluate
the model.
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