Paper Info
Title
The information flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking
Abstract
We introduce the information flaneur as a new human-centred view on information seeking that is grounded in interdisciplinary research. We use the metaphor of the urban flaneur making sense of a city as an inspiring lens that brings together diverse perspectives. These perspectives shift information seeking towards a more optimistic outlook: the information flaneur represents curious, creative, and critical information seeking. The resulting information-seeking model conceptualizes the interrelated nature between information activities and experiences as a continuum between horizontal exploration and vertical immersion. Motivated by enabling technological trends and inspired by the information flaneur, we present explorability as a new guiding principle for design and raise research challenges regarding the representation of information abstractions and details.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1978942.1979124
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
new guiding principle,interdisciplinary research,fresh look,perspectives shift information,information activity,critical information,urban flaneur,diverse perspective,information abstraction,information flaneur,new human-centred view,human computer interaction
Data science,Computer science,Information seeking,Knowledge management,Human–computer interaction,Metaphor
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
1.38
37
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marian Dörk142324.98
Sheelagh Carpendale24431251.97
C. Williamson32998417.38