Interacting with Information Blandford Ann
Interacting with Information Blandford Ann We live in an "information age," but information is only useful when it is interpreted by people and applied in the context of their goals and activities.…
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Interacting with Information Blandford Ann
We live in an "information age," but information is only useful when it is interpreted by people and applied in the context of their goals and activities. In order to design technologies that better support information work, it is necessary to better understand the details of that work. The volume of information to which people have access is growing at an incredible rate, vastly outstripping people's ability to assimilate and manage it.
We also discuss how people interact with information in terms of an "information journey," in which people, iteratively, do the following: recognise a need for information, find information, interpret and evaluate that information in the context of their goals, and use the interpretation to support their broader activities. In this lecture, we review the situations (physical, social and temporal) in which people interact with information. People's