Special Issue "Information Behavior"

Guest Editor
Dr. Amanda H. Spink
Research Capacity Building, Professor of Information Science, Queensland Academy of Arts & Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, 2 George St, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia
Website: http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/index.htm
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Interests: information behavior; web search; information seeking; interactive information retrieval

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue of the journal Future Internet seeks papers reporting high quality theoretical or empirical studies of Web information behavior. Web technologies seek to support people’s information behavior. Web information behavior is an important topic area for the future internet, the Web search engine companies and the information research community. The future internet will be shaped by people’s information behavior and the technologies developed to support those information behaviors. Web information behavior research includes a diverse range of theoretical and empirical approaches, including individual or collaborative models, information seeking, information foraging, information sense-making, information organising, information using and Web search (including interactive/cognitive information retrieval). Modeling people's Web information behavior is a major multidisciplinary research challenge, including fields such as computer science, library and information science, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, communication studies, information systems, etc.

High quality research papers are sought on any aspect of modeling or technologically supporting individual or collaborative Web information behavior, including information seeking, information foraging, information sense-making, information organising, information using and Web search approaches.

Amanda H. Spink, Ph. D.
Guest Editor

Related Journal

• Information — an Open Access journal of information science and technology, data, knowledge and communication

Submission Information

Potential contributors are invited to submit a paper via email to the Special Issue by 28 February 2010. All papers should be submitted to futureinternet@mdpi.org. Inquiries and submissions can be also forwarded electronically to the Guest Editor: Professor Amanda Spink – ah.spink@qut.edu.au

Submitted papers should not have been published nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is a new international, peer-reviewed, quarterly open access journal published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI).

Open Access publication is free of charge in the first few issues to be published in 2009.