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When conducting in situ wayfinding experiments we observed that for a variety of reasons, subjects failed to consider information that was relevant to the navigation task at hand even though that information appeared to be readily available. Likely reasons for the failure to notice include location of the subject, the orientation of the subject's body relative to relevant information, as well as a range of issues related to both physiology and psychology of perception. Drawing from a body of literature on understanding and modelling human information behaviour in information science we note that as yet there is no coherent theory of information behaviour being an embodied activity. Building such a theory will require substantial, cross-disciplinary efforts linking work across information science, psychology, biology, and neuroscience, to name a few.

Item Type:	Conference Extract
Keywords:	Interaction, information behaviour; perception; embodiment
Research Division:	Information and Computing Sciences
Research Group:	Library and information studies
Research Field:	Human information behaviour
Objective Division:	Information and Communication Services
Objective Group:	Other information and communication services
Objective Field:	Other information and communication services not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Lueg, CP (Professor Christopher Lueg)
ID Code:	89370
Year Published:	2014
Deposited By:	Information and Communication Technology
Deposited On:	2014-03-03
Last Modified:	2015-06-17
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