About Our Chapter

SIG USE members are concerned with people’s behavioral and cognitive activities as well as their affective states as they interact with information. These activities include:

• creating information needs
• recognizing information needs
• seeking (and not seeking) information that will address those needs
• exploring information sources present in one’s context/situation
• retrieving information from available information sources
• sharing information with others
• managing personal information collections
• communicating and collaborating with others concerning an information need or information resources using information and other interactions between people and information.

The SIG wishes to promote contextual studies of human information-related behavior and provision of information services, and to encourage the application of the study results to information systems design.