Experience information and colaboration in everyday life
The talk “Collaboration – the most wicked enabler to Research fabulously successful” back interesting findings of Dr. Karen E. Fisher, who is an associate professor at the Information School of the University of Washinton, USA, presented at the 5th. QQML in Rome, Italy.
Their results refer to how people experience information as part of their everyday life, with special emphasis on interpersonal and behavioral aspect, and how information environments or social are “reasons” information within a stream and also when the impact of information technology and communication.
The work of prof. Fischer in the years 2009-2011 went to check the value of public libraries in communities across the United States.
This study used a mixed method (developed with Crandall, Becker, et al.), Which collected data from over 50,000 people through the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has as main conclusion that 63% people use people veez technology library for information.
In view of the teacher, this has strong implications for how we design information systems, support information literacy, and determine this impact.
Karen E. Fisher is co-author of Theories of Information Behavior (2005, with S. & L. McKechnie Erdelez), Theory in Motion: Using theories of information behavior to design applications, policy and services (forthcoming, with S. Erdelez) and Digital inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology (2009, with M. Crandall).