Abstract
Every day, people from different professions and disciplines need to use information to make decisions, plan courses of action, discover patterns in big data, solve problems, analyze situations, make sense of phenomena, learn new concepts, make forecasts about future trends, and so on. People whose professions involve the frequent or continual performance of such activities include scientists, healthcare specialists, medical researchers, librarians, journalists, engineers, stock brokers, archeologists, educators, social scientists, and others—i.e., the so-called knowledge workers. As the amount and complexity of information is on the rise, it is becoming more important to understand how humans use and interact with information to support their everyday tasks and activities. [...]
Highlights
Informatics 2015, 2 rather than those between humans and technology per se
As the amount and complexity of information is on the rise, it is becoming more important to understand how humans use and interact with information to support their everyday tasks and activities. Some research toward this end has been done in the past, it has often been in the context of specific domains, specific tasks, and/or specific groups of people
human–information interaction (HII) is a broad area of research, and researchers are interested in many different aspects of HII, including those related to information behavior, information search and retrieval, information foraging, sharing, and seeking; information design, architecture, representation, and visualization; personal information management; information spaces; medical, health, and bioinformatics; human–computer interaction; and information systems
Summary
Informatics 2015, 2 rather than those between humans and technology per se. Technology may be intimately involved in any given activity, but the focus of research is not on the technology itself. Human–Information Interaction—A Special Issue of the Journal of Informatics Department of Computer Science, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada; E-Mail: pparsons@uwo.ca
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