Work tasks and socio‐cognitive relevance: A specific example
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and TechnologyPublished 1 January 2002
Birger Hjørland, Frank Sejer Christensen
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This article presents a concrete example of a work task: a doctor treating a patient suffering from schizophrenia, and it is outlined how work task, work situation, perceivedWork situation, task complexity, information need, information seeking and topicality, situational relevance, relevance assessment and work task fulfillment may be understood.
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Abstract This article presents a concrete example of a work task: a doctor treating a patient suffering from schizophrenia. It is outlined how work task, work situation, perceived work situation, task complexity, information need, information seeking and topicality, situational relevance, relevance assessment (including a discussion of system relevance and algorithmic relevance ) and work task fulfillment may be understood. Relevance is defined as something serving as a tool to a goal. “Tool” understood in the widest possible sense, including ideas, meanings, theories and documents as tools.
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