• DOI:10.1108/00220410610714903
Corpus ID: 11633889

Users, user studies and human information behaviour: A three-decade perspective on Tom Wilson's "On user studies and information needs"

@article{Bawden2006UsersUS,
  title={Users, user studies and human information behaviour: A three-decade perspective on Tom Wilson's "On user studies and information needs"},
  author={D. Bawden},
  journal={J. Documentation},
  year={2006},
  volume={62},
  pages={671-679}
}

D. Bawden

Published 2006

Computer Science

J. Documentation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review Wilson's (1981) seminal article, “On user studies and information needs” (Journal of Documentation, 1981, Vol. 37 No. 1, pp. 3‐15) as part of a series celebrating the Journal's 60th anniversary.Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopts a literature‐based conceptual analysis, taking Wilson's paper as the starting point, and evaluating the significance of, and later developments in, the issues dealt with in that article.Findings – Wilson's… CONTINUE READING

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