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- Datasource
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 by ACM Inc.
- ISBN
- 978-1-4503-0228-9
- doi
- 10.1145/1978942.1979124
- Publisher site
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Abstract
CHI 2011 ¢ Session: Search & Information Seeking May 7 “12, 2011 ¢ Vancouver, BC, Canada The Information Flaneur: A Fresh Look at Information Seeking Marian D rk, Sheelagh Carpendale, Carey Williamson o Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada {mdoerk, sheelagh, carey}@ucalgary.ca ABSTRACT We introduce the information ‚aneur as a new human-centred view on information seeking that is grounded in interdisciplinary research. We use the metaphor of the urban ‚aneur making sense of a city as an inspiring lens that brings together diverse perspectives. These perspectives shift information seeking towards a more optimistic outlook: the information ‚aneur represents curious, creative, and critical information seeking. The resulting information-seeking model conceptualizes the interrelated nature between information activities and experiences as a continuum between horizontal exploration and vertical immersion. Motivated by enabling technological trends and inspired by the information ‚aneur, we present explorability as a new guiding principle for design and raise research challenges regarding the representation of information abstractions and details. Author Keywords In this paper, we draw upon this wealth of related research to conceptualize a new approach to information seeking. While our paper is philosophical in ‚avour, many of the ideas are well-grounded in