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Information needs
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Information need
, User need
, User needs
The concept Information need is seldom, if ever, mentioned in the general literature about needs, but is a common term in the literature of…
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2013
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2013
Advances in Remote Sensing of Agriculture: Context Description, Existing Operational Monitoring Systems and Major Information Needs
C. Atzberger
Remote. Sens.
2013
Corpus ID: 11152920
Many remote sensing applications are devoted to the agricultural sector. Representative case studies are presented in the special…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Addressing climate information needs at the regional level: the CORDEX framework
F. Giorgi
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Colin Jones
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G. Asrar
2009
Corpus ID: 50945780
The need for climate change information at the regional-to-local scale is one of the central issues within the global change…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
A diary study of mobile information needs
Timothy Sohn
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Kevin A. Li
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W. Griswold
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J. Hollan
CHI
2008
Corpus ID: 22118405
Being mobile influences not only the types of information people seek but also the ways they attempt to access it. Mobile…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Information Needs in Collocated Software Development Teams
Amy J. Ko
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R. DeLine
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Gina Venolia
29th International Conference on Software…
2007
Corpus ID: 11412
Previous research has documented the fragmented nature of software development work. To explain this in more detail, we analyzed…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
What is enough? Satisficing information needs
C. Prabha
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L. Connaway
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L. Olszewski
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L. R. Jenkins
J. Documentation
2007
Corpus ID: 206369612
Purpose – This paper seeks to understand how users know when to stop searching for more information when the information space is…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
On user studies and information needs
Thomas D. Wilson
J. Documentation
2006
Corpus ID: 14390097
Apart from information retrieval there is virtually no other area of information science that has occasioned as much research…
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
User needs for location-aware mobile services
E. Kaasinen
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
2003
Corpus ID: 1786019
Abstract Mobile contexts of use vary a lot, and may even be continuously changing during use. The context is much more than…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
The economic effects of harmful algal blooms in the United States: Estimates, assessment issues, and information needs
P. Hoagland
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D. Anderson
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Y. Kaoru
,
A. White
2002
Corpus ID: 59540667
During the last several decades, harmful algal bloom (HAB) events have been observed in more locations than ever before…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web
Ed H. Chi
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P. Pirolli
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Kim Chen
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J. Pitkow
CHI
2001
Corpus ID: 9353133
On the Web, users typically forage for information by navigating from page to page along Web links. Their surfing patterns or…
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Information needs and uses.
B. Dervin
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M. Nilan
1986
Corpus ID: 193958472
Etude de synthese sur les besoins d'information et les utilisateurs, menee a partir d'une revue de la litterature parue depuis…
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