Description
Forskningsseminar sammen med Barbara Wildemuth med fælles tema om "Assigned Search Tasks". Pia Borlund is the originator of the test instrument labelled "simulated work task situation". This instrument is commonly used in interactive information retrieval (IIR) and seeking studies in the form of written search tasks descriptions assigned to the test participants. The objective of the use of simulated work task situations is to obtain realistic and reliable search behaviour during studying. What makes the design and tailoring of the simulated work task situations essential with respect to presenting a search task description that the test participants can relate to; in which they can identify themselves; and that they find topically interesting. However, past research shows how this requirement (and others) for the use of simulated work task situations are not always followed, which motivates the current research project on "Meta-evaluations of simulated work task situations". The purpose of the research project is to refine and improve the requirements for the use of simulating work task situations, and hereby to increase the research standard of empirical IIR and seeking studies. The test instrument of a simulated work task situation is studied via a series of empirical studies, these are: •A replica study of the original work by Borlund (uni students from Aalborg University) •A study focusing on the effect of tailoring (uni students from the RSLIS) •A study of the order effect of simulated work task situations (uni students from the RSLIS) •A study of school children and school teachers' use of simulated work task situations children (under planning) •(An ELIS study that investigates Ingwersen's three types of information needs)| Period | 4 Jun 2013 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Tampere, FinlandShow on map |