Information searching activity based on the body's circadian rhythm (morning-evening)

Abstract

Introduction: Organisms, including humans, have an internal biological clock that helps them adjust to the regular rhythm of the day. We aimed to study the effect of body's circadian rhythm (morning-evening), (biological clock) in searching for information on different people. Methods: The present study is of a fundamental applied type that has been performed by quasi-experimental method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 69 medical students of Qom University of Medical Sciences who were selected by purposive sampling method. The data of this study were used in two stages of completing the general health questionnaire, morning and evening sleep type, observing the behavior of completing search tasks and log analysis using collected images from users and then were collected in Camtasia studio software. Then, recorded data were collected and analyzed by Excel software and SPSS-24 software. Results: The results showed that people who slept in the evening had better information searching in a shorter time than people who slept in the morning and between. Analysis of the samples searching and retrieval behavior showed that they performed a total of 1574 strategies and techniques in the searching process. In fact, the samples chose their searching according to the type of their task. Conclusion: None of the sleeping types can affect the tests and cause cycles. Based on the genetic changes that occur, humans have different characteristics changing from time to time and create individual and functional differences. The range of individual differences is much wide.