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A Diary Study of Information Needs Produced in Casual-Leisure Reading Situations
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wilson, Max L. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Both information seeking and leisurely activities are commonplace in people’s daily lives, but very little is know about searching behaviours outside of the work context. To study such leisurely information needs and subsequent searching, a diary study was performed, focusing on the context of casual-leisure reading. The week-long diary study with 24 participants was performed by a team of six graduate students. Reading was often both an act of casual searching, as well as a motivator for subsequent searching episodes, and around half were hedonistically or emotionally motivated. Casual searching often began with topical or personal interests, but did not always involve information needs. The findings confirm prior literature on casual search, while providing new insights into these lesscritical and experience-driven episodes of searching, for fun. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-836/paper8.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
