Hunting And Gathering On The Information Savanna
Serves as the focal concept in a search for a truly functional document access system, enabling us to stand back from the present, to look into the shadows of our current designs, marvel at the breadth of human search capabilities, recognize frailties in both humans and systems, and ask new questions as we grapple with navigating our information environment. O'Connor and Copeland offer three different arenas of nontrivial information seeking for our consideration: "Submarine Chasing" explores...
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Serves as the focal concept in a search for a truly functional document access system, enabling us to stand back from the present, to look into the shadows of our current designs, marvel at the breadth of human search capabilities, recognize frailties in both humans and systems, and ask new questions as we grapple with navigating our information environment.
List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceCh. 1Conversations on Hunting, Gathering, and Information1Ch. 2Seeking a Human Orientation toward Problem Solving13Ch. 3"It's Wise to Study the Ways of One's Adversary": Submarine Chasing21Ch. 4Fifty-Two Stories to an Arrest: Bounty Hunting45Ch. 5Frameworks for an Emerging Image of Engineering Design95Ch. 6Foraging for Relevance117Ch. 7Prologue to Dialectic137Notes149References153Index167About the Authors171
\ The IndexerThe authors make a case for looking beyond the traditional positivist approach to theory and research design in information science…[they] challenge us to re-think our theories and methodologies.\ \
