Web Info Seeking

Information Seeking on The World Wide Web

Funded By Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1996 -1999; 1999 - 2002

Dr. Chun Wei Choo, University of Toronto (PI) [cw.choo@utoronto.ca]

A very special thanks to our Research Associates, then PhD students Brian Detlor and Don Turbull.

This program of research has been completed. Findings and methodology were published in:

• Paper presented at the HICSS 33 (Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science) in January 2000: Information Seeking on the Web 

• Paper presented at the 1999 ASIS Annual Meeting (Washington, DC): Information Seeking on the Web - An Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching

• Article in First Monday, Volume 5 no. 2, Feb 7, 2000:
  Information Seeking on the Web - An Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching

• Paper presented at the 1998 ASIS Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh, PA):
  A Behavioral Model of Information Seeking on the Web - Preliminary Results of a Study of How Managers and IT Specialists Use the Web

• Monograph co-authored by Chun Wei, Brian, and Don, "Web Work - Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web" published by Kluwer (September 2000)

An extension of this project: Choo, CW and Christine Marton. 2003. Information Seeking on the Web by Women in IT Professions. Internet Research 13, no. 4: 267-280.