Thibaud, Hulin

Representing and Modeling Expert Information Research Activity via Activity Tracing for Learning Purposes - 2012.


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Studies on the activity of information seeking and information literacy practices show that re-examining search behavior may improve search results. It is possible to strengthen this reflexivity by promoting the recovery and restoration of digital traces client-side, instead of just indexing them "server side". To understand the representations of information retrieval, we studied discourse of some students on their own information-seeking behavior and obtained models of their research. In student accounts, subjective description of the concepts in question overshadowed any objective description of the activity.