Human Information Behaviour (36664)

Lecturer: David Elsweiler

Human Information Behaviour (HIB) is the interaction between people, various forms of information and the contextual situation in which the interaction takes place. HIB is ubiquitous, wide-ranging and important in all facets of society. In this class students will receive an introduction to the topic, learning about, for example, information seeking, managing, re-finding and archiving behaviours, as well as the behaviours in different contexts (e.g. leisure and work environments) and those of diverse population groups (e.g. children, elderly, homeless people etc.). Students will learn to read, examine, criticise and discuss research dealing with the study and theory of information behaviour and develop an increased awareness of the importance of information behaviour in all aspects of human life.

Materials and literature for this course will be provided in English, but students can present or submit their contributions in either German or English

Seminararbeite should be in ACM SIGIR format and have a maximum length of 8 pages. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style).

Topics for student projects can be found here.

Lecture Slides

Week 1 (18.10): Introduction 

Week 2 (25.10): Email Behaviour

Week 3 (1.11): Holiday

Week 4 (8.11): Reading Group

Jaime Teevan, Daniel Ramage and Meredith Ringel Morris. #TwitterSearch: A Comparison of Microblog Search and Web Search. In Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011), Hong Kong, China, February 2011 (available here)