Information Foraging: how people find the information?
The main idea of the Information Foraging is based on the concept of information as food: as there is a physiological need for food that leads to his research, collection and assimilation, so these steps can be found and analyzed within the research of information.
Men need to feed the mind with information and seek it to assimilate: the fundamental assumptions within the theory of Pirolli and Stuart are the concepts of Information Scent of Information and Snacking.
Information Scent is the ability to asset what are the best places to retrieve information of interest
Information Snack is defined as the tendency to try to understand the value of information
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