[Sigia-l] Information Types

[Pittas Marios]

Hi Christer

I previously touched/worked on the subject of different information types
needing different navigation structures (ref: Marios Pittas: "Navigation in
Hypertext" - PhD thesis @ UoL). You will be able to get some foundation
information from papers by Dillon, Richardson and McKnight (earlier work),
about [** from what I remember **] as to how users use information found in
paper media (?). The users tasks (e.g quick glance through the headlines vs
in depth reading), the type of information needed (e.g. news vs scientific
articles) are either helped or hindered by the information structures as
well as to the presentation of the information.

If my references are off target let me know and I will try to dig up the
thesis from where ever it might be!!!

Marios

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From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
Christer Clerwall
Sent: 03 April 2003 21:52
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Information Types


Hi all

I'm guessing that this question has been up do discussion on other
occastion, but
since I am rather new on the list I haven't seen it.

I want to ask you all if you any reserach on different kinds of
information (I am
thinking 'technical information', 'prose', 'news' and 'non-technical').
As you can
see from the suggested types I know nothing of this area. However I am
working
on an experiment investigating informations structures/navigations
schemes
effect on user's feeling for and ability to navigate a web site. In this
I have the
idea that different kinds of information might "need" different kinds of

structuring.

Any ideas?

/Christer

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Christer Clerwall
Ph D Candidate, Media and Communications
Karlstad University, Sweden
+46 54-700 11 06
christer.clerwall at kau.se

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