Everyday life revolves around the discovery and curation of digital information.
People search the Web continuously, from quickly looking up the information needed
to complete a task, to endlessly searching for inspiration and knowledge. A variety
of studies have modeled information seeking strategies and characterized information
seeking and curation activities on the Web. However, there is a lack of research on
how existing Web applications support the discovery and curation of information,
especially concerning the motivations behind them and how different approaches can
be compared. In this thesis, I present a study of information discovery tools and how
they relate to the nature of information seeking. I propose a conceptual framework
that deals with Web application design elements that support different aspects of
information discovery and curation. This framework can be used when designing,
evaluating or updating Web applications. / Graduate / 0984
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/6053 |
| Date | 29 April 2015 |
| Creators | Voyloshnikova, Elena |
| Contributors | Storey, Margaret-Anne |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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