Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 67 Issue 2

Human multiple information task behavior on the web

Minsoo Park

The purpose of this paper is to explore the general nature of human multiple information task behavior in Web information seeking and retrieval contexts and identify the factors…

Why do students use What’s App? – an exploratory study

Noa Aharony

This study focusses on What’s App, a mobile messaging service for smartphones, that was founded in 2009. The purpose of this study is to explore which factors may influence…

A preliminary study on the usage of search assisting features when searching for a personal health task

Anushia Inthiran, Saadat M Alhashmi, Pervaiz K Ahmed

Current research topics in relation to health information searching focus on challenges faced by health consumers and domains used to perform the health search. Health consumers…

Presenting social media information on mobile devices using multiple contexts

Esther MengYoke Tan, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

Research has shown that when presenting large amounts of social media information on small devices, design should consider multiple contexts which include user preferences, time…

Delineating knowledge management through lexical analysis – a retrospective

Jacobus Philippus van Deventer, Cornelius Johannes Kruger, Roy Donald Johnson

Academic authors tend to define terms that meet their own needs. Knowledge Management (KM) is a term that comes to mind and is examined in this study. Lexicographical research…

Web service for connecting visually impaired people with libraries

Danijela Tesendic, Danijela Boberic Krsticev

The purpose of this paper is to describe a case study of developing a web service that will act as an intermediary between the Audio Library system for the visually impaired and…