{"title":"Multitasking behavior","authors":"Amanda Spink, Charles Cole, Mary Waller","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420110","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter does not attempt to furnish an overview of multitasking research in every scientific discipline. Rather, we highlight the importance of multitasking in the cognitive and information sciences and the need for further research on multitasking, particularly within the context of information behavior. Why are we interested in multitasking? Why is multitasking an important theoretical and practical phenomenon for the cognitive and information sciences, and particularly for theories and models of information behavior? Multitasking has no doubt always been an essential human behavior. However, unlike earlier research on microanalyses of brain and memory structure/capacity (Miller, 1956), multitasking pushes brain and memory research into a more global consideration of human existence. Reasons for our increased interest in the phenomenon are society’s heightened interest in security concerns, the evolution of a workplace with workers now required to perform tasks formerly performed by others, and above all the pervasiveness of communication devices in both work and leisure activities. Citations to multitasking research in the cognitive sciences have recently appeared in the popular press. The ubiquity of digital devices such as mobile phones, messaging devices, video games, and desktop and laptop computers has helped create the impression that today’s young people behave differently from previous generations in their simultaneous use of multiple devices, with the result that attention is diverted from the task at hand (Scott, 2006). In response to the numerous published studies indicating the negative effects of telephone use on automobile driver performance (Strayer & Johnston, 2001), many local CHAPTER 3","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"93-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91790038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syndromic surveillance systems","authors":"Ping Yan, Hsinchun Chen, Daniel Zeng","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420117","url":null,"abstract":"Ping Yan, Hsinchun Chen, and Daniel Zeng Department of Management Information Systems University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona pyan@email.arizona.edu; {hchen, zeng}@eller.arizona.edu","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"425-495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91803630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping research specialties","authors":"Steven A. Morris, Betsy Van der Veer Martens","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"213-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91803631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational informatics","authors":"Nigel Ford","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420118","url":null,"abstract":"Educational informatics is a relatively new area of research, representing the convergence of aspects of information science, computing, education, instructional systems technology, and learning sciences; and building on, integrating, and extending these areas of endeavor. Its development represents a response to the question: How can we bring together educational computing and information science to better harness the increasing wealth of resources accessible via the Internet for the purposes of learning? Learning may be formal, entailing teacher-led activities that take place in educational institutions such as schools and universities. However, it may also take the form of self-directed lifelong learning. The former emphasizes “mediation”—used here to refer to intervention on the part of teachers and learning designers in the learning process, typically to select and present information to learners. The latter entails autonomous information seeking on the part of the learner. These two strands may, of course, blend and intersect to a degree, in that aspects of autonomy and self-direction are increasingly incorporated into formal education, for example in the move toward inquiry-based learning, and lifelong autonomous learners may at any stage opt to partake in mediated learning activity. Developments in educational computing have attempted to bring increasing levels of individualization to learning by making use of pedagogical1 knowledge to enable systems to select and present information in response to the needs and preferences of individual learners. Typically, such systems have been characterized by relatively sophisticated pedagogical mediation and relatively small volumes of closed corpus information—relative, that is, to systems developed within information science. Conversely, information science has been particularly concerned with the development of systems that access relatively large volumes of diverse information sources without attempting to provide a high level of pedagogical mediation. By combining key aspects of both of these fields of endeavor, educational informatics seeks to: CHAPTER 11","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"497-544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90135614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scientific writing","authors":"Ken Hyland, Françoise Salager-Meyer","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420114","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420114","url":null,"abstract":"Reflections on the ‘rigour’ of scientific writing, overindulgence, and the art of conduct.","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"297-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125016387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"xvii-xxii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137487118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the Associate Editor","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"xxv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138042373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scholarship and disciplinary practices","authors":"Carole L. Palmer, Melissa H. Cragin","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"163-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91790037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ARIST advisory board","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"xiii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137487115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/aris.2008.1440420102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55509,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Information Science and Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"xi"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137487116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}