An Information Foraging Analysis of Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information

Ravi Vatrapu; Scott Robertson

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2010.57

An Information Foraging Analysis of Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information

Ravi Vatrapu, Scott Robertson

University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an experimental study of political information foraging in the context of e-voting. Participants were observed while searching and browsing the internet for campaign information in a mock-voting situation in three online note-taking conditions: No Notes, Private Notes, and Shared Notes. Interaction analysis of the study data consisted of applying Information Foraging Theory to understand participants' searching, and browsing behaviors. Empirical results show skewed time allocation to activities, a tradeoff between enrichment vs. exploitation of search results and issues with lack of scent, low value perception, and value depletion of information. Implications for the voter centered design of e-voting portals are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences (HICSS-43)
Editors	Ralph H. Sprague, Jr.
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, CA
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2010
ISBN (Print)	9781424455096
ISBN (Electronic)	9780769538693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2010.57
Publication status	Published - 2010
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Series	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ISSN	1060-3425

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Vatrapu, Ravi ; Robertson, Scott. / An Information Foraging Analysis of Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information. Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences (HICSS-43). editor / Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. Los Alamitos, CA : IEEE, 2010. (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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Vatrapu, R & Robertson, S 2010, An Information Foraging Analysis of Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information. in RH Sprague, Jr. (ed.), Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences (HICSS-43). IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, An Information Foraging Analysis of Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information, United States, 30/06/2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2010.57

An Information Foraging Analysis of Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information. / Vatrapu, Ravi; Robertson, Scott.
Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences (HICSS-43). ed. / Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE, 2010. (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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