Information Search Behavior Research Articles

Transitions in daily search tactics: during the cross-app interaction search process

PurposeCross-app interactive search has become the new normal, but the characteristics of their tactic transitions are still unclear. This study investigated the transitions of daily search tactics during the cross-app interaction search process.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 204 young participants' impressive cross-app search experiences in real daily situations were collected. The search tactics and tactic transition sequences in their search process were obtained by open coding. Statistical analysis and sequence analysis were used to analyze the frequently applied tactics, the frequency and probability of tactic transitions and the tactic transition sequences representing characteristics of tactic transitions occurring at the beginning, middle and ending phases. FindingsCreating the search statement (Creat), evaluating search results (EvalR), evaluating an individual item (EvalI) and keeping a record (Rec) were the most frequently applied tactics. The frequency and probability of transitions differed significantly between different tactic types. “Creat? EvalR? EvalI? Rec” is the typical path; Initiate the search in various ways and modifying the search statement were highlighted at the beginning phase; iteratively creating the search statement is highlighted in the middle phase; Moreover, utilization and feedback of information are highlighted at the ending phase. Originality/valueThe present study shed new light on tactic transitions in the cross-app interactive environment to explore information search behaviour. The findings of this work provide targeted suggestions for optimizing APP query, browsing and monitoring systems.

Online health information consumers’ learning across health-related search tasks from the perspective of retrieval platform switching

This study aims to investigate consumers’ modification of retrieval platform switch paths across health-related search tasks and learning characteristics via such a switch. Mixed research methods were used in this study. A lab user experiment was designed to obtain data on consumers’ health information search behaviour. Screen recordings and interview data were both coded and analysed. Research results show that health consumers acquired different kinds of health knowledge units from different retrieval platforms, and there are five change patterns of retrieval platform switch paths which reveal three types of learning. The results suggest that health consumers learn not only task-related knowledge but also retrieval skills during the switch of retrieval platforms. The research findings further develop the search as learning process research framework from the dimension of retrieval platform switch patterns and contribute to the enhancement of consumers’ health information retrieval abilities.

Analisis Perkembangan Literasi Digital terhadap Perilaku Penulusuran Informasi Ilmiah di Instagram Mahasiswa UINSU

Information search behavior is an attitude or action in seeking or finding the information needed. Information search behavior is important to do to get the required information that can help in solving problems. Kriklas (2006: 16), argues that information seeking behavior is an activity in determining and identifying messages to satisfy perceived information needs. Themethod used in this research is a qualitative research method to describe the nature of the problems being monitored. Sulistyo-Basuki (2006: 78) describes qualitative research intending to get a complete reflection of things for the thoughts of people being watched. This research results that in the search for information, it is included in the novice category. Because according to Hsieh Yee, a novice information seeker is a non-professional searcher who has no experience in searching or has never attended college or practiced online searching.
 Keywords: Media Sosial, Information Searching Behavior, Instagram

Pola Perilaku Penelusuran Informasi Mahasiswa Prodi Ilmu Perpustakaan UIN Sumatera Utara di Era Digital Native

Information search behavior is an attitude or action in seeking or finding the information needed. Information search behavior is important to do to get the required information that can help in solving problems. Kriklas (2006: 16), argues that information seeking behavior is an activity in determining and identifying messages to satisfy perceived information needs. The method used in this research is a qualitative research method to describe the nature of the problems being monitored. Sulistyo-Basuki (2006: 78) describes qualitative research intending to get a complete reflection of things for the thoughts of people being watched. This research results that in the search for information, it is included in the novice category. Because according to Hsieh Yee, a novice information seeker is a non-professional searcher who has no experience in searching or has never attended college or practiced online searching.
 Keywords: Pattern, Information Searching Behavior, Digital Native

Explicating affordances in travel information search: investigating device use in relation to goals and personal characteristics

Despite increasing attention to technology development and its impact on travel information search, research about information search behaviours across multiple devices (i.e., smartphones, laptops, tablets, and desktop computers) has received limited attention. Guided by technology affordance theory, this paper examines the link between device use and information search goals, and the relationship between personal characteristics and device use. The study is based on two independent studies. Data were collected using a mixed-methods approach utilising an online survey and an online trip planning diary. The findings revealed that information searchers were essentially multi-device users and switched between devices based on their information search goals. Moreover, personal characteristics such as demographic characteristics, experience and personality influenced device use. The findings of the research shed light on the elusive concept of affordance to enhance the understanding of the complexity of device usage during travel information search.

Impact of Social Media Usage on Users' COVID-19 Protective Behavior: Survey Study in Indonesia.

Social media have become the source of choice for many users to search for health information on COVID-19 despite possible detrimental consequences. Several studies have analyzed the association between health information-searching behavior and mental health. Some of these studies examined users' intentions in searching health information on social media and the impact of social media use on mental health in Indonesia. This study investigates both active and passive participation in social media, shedding light on cofounding effects from these different forms of engagement. In addition, this study analyses the role of trust in social media platforms and its effect on public health outcomes. Thus, the purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of social media usage on COVID-19 protective behavior in Indonesia. The most commonly used social media platforms are Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter. We used primary data from an online survey. We processed 414 answers to a structured questionnaire to evaluate the relationship between these users' active and passive participation in social media, trust in social media, anxiety, self-efficacy, and protective behavior to COVID-19. We modeled the data using partial least square structural equation modeling. This study reveals that social media trust is a crucial antecedent, where trust in social media is positively associated with active contribution and passive consumption of COVID-19 content in social media, users' anxiety, self-efficacy, and protective behavior. This study found that active contribution of content related to COVID-19 on social media is positively correlated with anxiety, while passive participation increases self-efficacy and, in turn, protective behavior. This study also found that active participation is associated with negative health outcomes, while passive participation has the opposite effects. The results of this study can potentially be used for other infectious diseases, for example, dengue fever and diseases that can be transmitted through the air and have handling protocols similar to that of COVID-19. Public health campaigns can use social media for health promotion. Public health campaigns should post positive messages and distil the received information parsimoniously to avoid unnecessary and possibly counterproductive increased anxiety of the users.

Determinants of Digital Health Information Search (DHIS) Behaviour: Extending UTAUT with healthcare behaviour constructs

Introduction: As the availability of huge amounts of digital health information content increases, the popularity of Digital Health Information Search (DHIS) has increased. This paper explores the determinants that influence the intention to DHIS by the public by extending the UTAUT model with health behaviour constructs like health consciousness, attitude towards health information, and trust in DHI. Method: The instrument was created by adapting scales from previous studies. Survey forms were circulated through online platforms with the snowball sampling technique. With the 345 finalized sample, analysis was carried out, and structural equation modelling (SEM) is used for data analysis with the help of SPSS v.26 and AMOS v.26. Results: Sample demographics show that 60% of the respondents have experience of 5 years in using smartphones, and 70% of respondents use the smartphone from 1 to 6 hours per day. We see that less time was spent on digital health information (DHI). For searching DHI, respondents use Google/other browsers and for sharing it, WhatsApp is the most used app. The reliability of scales was checked in SPSS, which resulted in Cronbach's alpha value greater than 0.7 for all scales. The hypothesis testing resulted in all the constructs showing a significant relationship. We see that performance expectancy, social influence, and trust in DHI showed a strong significant relation with the intention to DHIS. Conclusion: This study extends the literature in information systems adoption studies by adding a combination of the technology acceptance model with health constructs. Factors influencing the intention to DHIS are accessibility, influence from peers, and information reliability are more concerned. This study shows the importance and need for genuine DHI from valid healthcare providers, in which the creators of healthcare information, like Government and private healthcare providers, have to be more conscious.

Visual Data Mining: Digital Visual Activities In Network Society

This article describes scientific discoveries that drive the phenomenon of visual cultural communication media in networked societies. Many types of research on visual culture have focused more on visual arts and mass media. However, few have yet addressed the problem of people's digital activities in searching for visual information on the Internet ( Visual search engine as a resource for visual data mining The amount of digital information, including visual information, is increasing exponentially.This research uses a literature study method with a qualitative approach. The primary data used in this study are studies on visual culture and visual search engines published in international peer-reviewed journals. Analysis of digital behavior and visual culture in a networked society is described as a research topic in previous research results. The conclusions drawn indicate that there is still a relatively deep and broad analysis of the study of visual culture when using digital communication media. There are few research studies on visual culture and digital activities in connected communities, especially people's visual information search behavior.

Planned serendipity: exploring tourists’ on-site information behaviour

ABSTRACT The paper investigates tourist information behaviour on-site in light of the ubiquitous access to information afforded by smartphones. The study problematizes existing literature on information search behaviour and connects it with theories of unplanned behaviour. Through the concept of planned serendipity, the paper highlights how tourist information behaviour is a complex phenomenon that does not necessarily answer to a dichotomy between spontaneity and planning. The study employs a combination of Experience Sampling Method and semi-structured interviews, which allow the researcher to collect data both during and after the trip. Four themes are identified that challenge key assumptions in tourist information behaviour literature: (1) emergent and contingent plans, (2) cognitive effort on-site: iterative and specific search process, (3) tourist-centric orientation in time and space, (4) aiming for optimization. The paper concludes that tourists’ ‘phygital’ information environment both enables and constrains serendipity. The dichotomy of structure vs. serendipity is not sufficient to explain the role of serendipity in travel planning, where planned and unplanned behaviour coexist. The paper also contributes to the methodological landscape of research on tourist experiences and shows that everyday technologies like the smartphone can be harnessed to access the on-site stage, reducing recall bias and increasing ecological validity.

Subjective Knowledge, Perceived Ability, Motivation, and Age: A Mediated Moderation Model of Antecedents of Stock Market Investors’ Information Search

Information search is one of the major steps in the consumer purchase decision-making process and is also essential in making a sensible choice. Researchers have attempted in a variety of ways over the past few decades to explore consumers’ information search behaviour, largely for consumer goods. Today’s rapidly expanding financial services markets are also attracting researchers’ interest in investigating investors’ information search processes. Investors pursue information search activity to manage their expected return on their investment. The information search process helps them to create knowledge for better decision-making. Financial service providers are keen to understand investors’ information search process to establish client-centric advisory services. The present study focuses on exploring relationships among the antecedents of stock market investors’ pre-purchase information search behaviour. In a mediated moderation model, interrelationships between subjective knowledge perceived ability to search, and motivation to search were investigated. The role of investors’ age was also explored as a moderating variable.

Individual Differences and Situational Constraint Predict Information Search in Negotiation Planning

Planning is critical for negotiation success as it facilitates obtaining superior outcomes. However, little empirically is known about this topic. We argue that individual differences are important to understanding planning behavior because planning affords greater opportunities for individual differences to manifest compared to other phases of negotiation. We conducted a series of studies with the aim of understanding how the Big Five factors and gender predict information search and preference while planning. In Study 1, we examined information search behavior using the Mouselab paradigm. When the search space was large, agreeableness predicted persistence in search, and women spent significantly more time on the task, and looked for value creating and relationship related information to a greater extent than men (Study 1a). In a more constrained situation or with a smaller search space, few associations between individual differences and search behavior emerged (Studies 1b and 1c). In Study 2, we used a survey design to elicit preferences for information type. In this task, multiple personality factors predicted preferences. Conscientiousness and openness predicted preferences for value claiming information, and women preferred value creating information. Conscientiousness predicted preference for value claiming choice of information through the preference for value claiming information. How individual differences manifest in information search and preference in negotiation planning is a function of both task type and complexity.

Analisis Perkembangan Literasi Digital terhadap Perilaku Penulusuran Informasi Ilmiah di Instagram pada Mahasiswa UINSU


 Information search behavior is an attitude or action in seeking or finding the information needed. Information search behavior is important to do to get the required information that can help in solving problems. Kriklas (2006: 16), argues that information seeking behavior is an activity in determining and identifying messages to satisfy perceived information needs. The method used in this research is a qualitative research method to describe the nature of the problems being monitored. Sulistyo-Basuki (2006: 78) describes qualitative research intending to get a complete reflection of things for the thoughts of people being watched. This research results that in the search for information, it is included in the novice category. Because according to Hsieh Yee, a novice information seeker is a non-professional searcher who has no experience in searching or has never attended college or practiced online searching.
 Keywords: Media Sosial, Information Searching Behavior, Instagram

Pola Perilaku Penelusuran Informasi Mahasiswa Prodi Ilmu Perpustakaan UINSU di Era Digital Native

Information search behavior is an attitude or action in seeking or finding the information needed. Information search behavior is important to do to get the required information that can help in solving problems. Kriklas (2006: 16), argues that information seeking behavior is an activity in determining and identifying messages to satisfy perceived information needs. The method used in this research is a qualitative research method to describe the nature of the problems being monitored. Sulistyo-Basuki (2006: 78) describes qualitative research intending to get a complete reflection of things for the thoughts of people being watched. This research results that in the search for information, it is included in the novice category. Because according to Hsieh Yee, a novice information seeker is a non-professional searcher who has no experience in searching or has never attended college or practiced online searching.
 Keywords: Pattern, Information Searching Behavior, Digital Native

What's in a Name? Investors' Reactions to Non‐GAAP Labels*†

ABSTRACTUsing a mixed‐methods approach, I investigate how the terms that firms use to label non‐GAAP earnings interact with investors' scrutiny of non‐GAAP reporting to affect investors' information search behavior and investment decisions. This study informs regulators, who have expressed concern over the mislabeling of non‐GAAP measures, and managers, who are often criticized for their misuse of discretion in non‐GAAP reporting. I first provide descriptive evidence on the non‐GAAP labels used in practice, followed by a survey to understand what investors believe these labels convey about earnings quality. Finally, drawing on theory from psychology, I predict and then find in an experiment that investors who are more likely to scrutinize non‐GAAP reporting are not affected by non‐GAAP labels when deciding to seek out the non‐GAAP reconciliation, and react positively to appropriately used labels. However, investors who are less likely to scrutinize non‐GAAP reporting rely on the cue provided by the label when deciding whether to seek out the non‐GAAP reconciliation, and are more likely to be misled by inappropriately used labels. For regulators, these findings validate concerns related to the mislabeling of non‐GAAP measures and suggest increased non‐GAAP scrutiny helps counteract mislabeling. For managers, these findings suggest investors react favorably to the appropriate use of discretion in non‐GAAP reporting.

Perilaku Pencarian Informasi Mahasiswa Fakultas Ekonomi Bisnis Islam Tahun 2019 di Perpustakaan UIN Sumatera Utara Medan

This essay discusses how students of the Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business use the State Islamic University of North Sumatra Medan Library in 2019 to find information. The following will be described in this paper: 1) Islamic Business Economics students' methods of information seeking at the Library of North Sumatra State Islamic University Medan; 2) the challenges that came up while trying to find information at the Medan North Sumatra State Islamic University Library; and, thirdly, the means by which these obstacles can be overcome. Data is gathered through questionnaires or surveys. It can be interpreted as follows on the basis of the findings of the research: ( 1) The Islamic Business Economics Department received positive feedback regarding the information-seeking behavior of students in 2019, as well as the obstacles these students encountered when looking for information. a) They do not require any information; b) Submissions must be incomplete; ( c) there is trouble in finding assortments since they are on an alternate rack from the OPAC framework; ( 3) There are ways to get around obstacles when looking for information: a) giving and finishing assortments as per the necessities of understudies and speakers; ( b) Create a collection shelf that is compatible with OPAC search engines to make it simple for users to locate the data they require.
 Keywords: Information search behavior; Information Needs, Librarians

Investors’ online searching and green knowledge dissemination

The dissemination of green knowledge can effectively promote knowledge sharing and facilitate green technology innovation, which is important for mitigating climate risk at the microenterprise level. This study focuses on the effect of retail investors’ internet information search behavior on the dissemination of corporate green knowledge. Using the investors’ online searching volume and green patent citations of Chinese publicly listed companies from 2011 to 2020, we find that retail investors’ online searching has a significant positive impact on the green information dissemination of firms. Online media coverage and social media posts could effectively moderate this relationship and improve green knowledge sharing.

Assessing the national burden of allergic asthma by web-search data, pollen counts, and drug prescriptions in Germany and Sweden

BackgroundAsthma and its main phenotype allergic asthma are prevalent, chronic, and complex diseases affecting 4% of the population. One main trigger for allergic asthma exacerbations is pollen. Online health information search behavior by people is increasing, and analysis of web-search data can provide valuable insight into disease burden and risk factors of a population. ObjectivesWe sought to perform a web-search data analysis and correlation to climate factors and pollen in 2 European countries. MethodsWe analyzed the national web-search volume for allergic asthma-related keywords in Germany and Sweden from 2018 to 2021 and correlated it to local pollen counts, climatic factors, and drug prescription rates. ResultsPer capita, more searches were conducted in Sweden than in Germany. A complex geographic stratification within the countries was observed. Search results were seasonal with a peak in spring and correlated with pollen counts in both countries. However, anti-asthmatic drug prescription rates in Sweden, as well as temperature and precipitation in both countries, did not correlate with search volume. ConclusionOur analysis offers population-level insights about this complex disease by reporting its needs and establishing the correlation to pollen counts, which enables a targeted approach in the public health management of allergic asthma. Local pollen counts, as opposed to temperature or precipitation, might be good predictors of allergic asthma disease burden.

Analisis Perilaku Penelusuran Informasi Mahasiswa Ilmu Perpustakaan UIN Sumatera Utara Dalam Menyelesaikan Skripsi

This study is entitled "Analysis of Information Searching Behavior of Library Science Students at UIN North Sumatra in Completing Undergraduate Thesis". The purpose of this study was to find out how the behavior of information retrieval of library science students in completing their undergraduate thesis at UIN Sumatra Utara. In addition, the research aims to find out what are the information needs of librarian science students at UIN North Sumatra. The research method used is a qualitative research method with a case study type of research. The subjects in this study were individuals who were library science students at UIN North Sumatra who were preparing their thesis. Then the object of this research is information retrieval behavior of library science students at UIN North Sumatra in completing their undergraduate thesis according to David Ellis. The results of this study indicate that the information needs of library science students at UIN North Sumatra, such as the subject needed is their field of study, namely the development of library science. Sources of information needed in the form of documents in the form of books and internet sources. While non-documentary sources are in the form of results of discussions in activities held by students majoring in library science.
 Keywords: information searching behavior; library science, undergraduate thesis

Analisis Perilaku Pencarian Informasi Mahasiswa Ilmu Perpustakaan Menggunakan Model Ellis

In searching for information, students themselves are required not only to be successful in searching for information, but also to find quality information and its validity can be accounted for. The existence of the need for information makes many people to obtain information in various ways. The need for information also raises human actions and behavior in obtaining and seeking information. This study uses a qualitative research approach. In terminology according to Baydan and Taylor, a qualitative approach is a research procedure that produces descriptive data in the form of written or spoken words. This research results that students perform information search to meet their information needs. Particularly the need for academic information, such as lecture assignments given by lecturers as well as to fulfill information needs about the basic theory of practicum.
 Keywords: Information Search Behavior, Student, Ellis Model

Aktivitas Perilaku Pencarian Nformasi Mahasiswa di UINSU


 Information seeking behavior and information needs are carried out by everyone to fulfill the knowledge they want, including students. Before searching for information students must first know what information they need, such as making a list of information to be searched for, then after making a list of information to be sought, the behavior when searching for information is to start browsing or where to look for that information, after being sure of the source of the information being sought. then students must verify and sort out the information to be retrieved. The method used in this study is a qualitative research method to describe the characteristics of the cases studied. Sulistyo-Basuki (2006: 78) explains that qualitative research aims to obtain a complete picture of a matter from the point of view of the human being studied. In fulfilling the needs of different information, students will do any way to get the information according to their needs. To get the information that suits their needs, UINSU students don't just use one source of information to get the information they need.
 Keywords: Students, Information Search Behavior, Information Needs