Designing for uncertainty Export

@article{citeulike:5909261, abstract = {Our highly digitized world brings us into contact with networked information systems with the potential to help us locate information quickly and easily at the touch of a button. But it is far from easy to quickly find the exact information we need. Every new resource added increases the time needed to locate the right information. The increasing scale of resource collections continues to drive the need for innovative methods of organizing and providing access to the information within these collections (Bates, ). This panel will discuss the prospect of designing for uncertainty - that is creating information systems based on the premise that (in certain situations) uncertainty can be a powerful mediating strategy for people.}, address = {Information and Knowledge Management Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia; Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA; Information and Knowledge Management Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia; School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO; The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL), Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, NJ}, author = {Anderson, Theresa D. and Bates, Marcia J. and Berryman, Jennifer and Erdelez, Sanda and Heinstrom, Jannica}, citeulike-article-id = {5909261}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301170}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116328851/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/meet.14504301170}, issn = {1550-8390}, journal = {Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {concepts, design, im, individual\_practice, information\_behaviour, information\_systems, networks, panel\_session, uncertainty}, number = {1}, pages = {1--9}, posted-at = {2009-10-08 12:40:22}, priority = {0}, title = {Designing for uncertainty}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301170}, volume = {43}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5909261 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5909261 N2 - Our highly digitized world brings us into contact with networked information systems with the potential to help us locate information quickly and easily at the touch of a button. But it is far from easy to quickly find the exact information we need. Every new resource added increases the time needed to locate the right information. The increasing scale of resource collections continues to drive the need for innovative methods of organizing and providing access to the information within these collections (Bates, ). This panel will discuss the prospect of designing for uncertainty - that is creating information systems based on the premise that (in certain situations) uncertainty can be a powerful mediating strategy for people. IS - 1 JF - Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology SN - 1550-8390 AD - Information and Knowledge Management Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia; Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA; Information and Knowledge Management Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia; School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO; The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL), Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, NJ EP - 9 TI - Designing for uncertainty VL - 43 SP - 1 KW - concepts KW - design KW - im KW - individual_practice KW - information_behaviour KW - information_systems KW - networks KW - panel_session KW - uncertainty AU - Anderson, Theresa AU - Bates, Marcia AU - Berryman, Jennifer AU - Erdelez, Sanda AU - Heinstrom, Jannica PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301170 ER -