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Objective: To translate the English version of the Autonomy Preference Index (API) into Chinese, and to test the validity and reliability of Chinese version of API. Methods: A total of 720 inpatients (sample 1) were recruited from six hospitals in Changsha, China. The sample 1 data was used for item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and internal consistency reliability test. A total of 600 inpatients were recruited randomly from a general hospital (sample 2). The sample 2 data was used for confirmatory factor analysis scale structure validity. Sixty inpatients of sample I were randomly selected and retested 1 week later. Results: There were 16 items in the revised API scale, and three factors including general decision making preferences (GDMP), vignettes decision making preferences (VDMP) and information seeking preferences (ISP) were extracted by exploratory factor analysis, factor loadings of each item ranged from 0.47 to 0. 83, and 54. 78% of the total variances were explained. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good model fit (GFI = 0. 84, AGFI = 0.78, CFI = 0. 86, NFI = 0. 85, RMSEA = 0.08). An analysis of internal consistency yielded Cronbach' sαcoefficients were 0.80 for the whole scale, and 0.65, 0.91, 0.89 for the three factors of GDMP, VDMP and ISP, respectively. And the retest reliabilities were 0.67 for the whole instrument, and 0. 55,0. 78, and 0. 54 for the three factors respectively. Conclusion: The Chinese version of the Autonomy Preference Index (API-C-16) is proved to be reliable and eligible. It could be used to assess the degree of the patient's decision making and information-seeking preference in clinical situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The implementation of open government data (OGD) initiatives has become a worldwide phenomenon over the last decade. While there have been many studies exploring this phenomenon, few have focused on data collection phase in data opening process, during which government officials seek government-owned datasets for OGD purposes. To establish a model for the process of data collection phase, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with fifteen participants recruited through purposive and snowball sampling methods from eleven central and local Taiwanese government agencies. This paper discusses the research findings regarding (1) why government officials undertake tasks of data preparation, (2) how potential datasets are discovered, selected, and obtained from multiple government agencies, and (3) how information is sought to facilitate tasks of data preparation. These findings bridged the research gap in the study of data opening process and verified previous information seeking models. Suggestions for future practitioners and topics worthy of further exploration are enumerated in the conclusion section.

Objective:To explore the relationship between health anxiety and internet health information seeking behavior among outpatients. Methods: Totally 566 adult outpatients were investigated with the self-designed internet health information seeking behavior questionnaire and Short Health Anxiety Inventory. Multivariate analysis was performed by multiple linear regression method. Results: The mean score of health anxiety of the sample was (13.1 ± 7.1). 85.9% of the outpatients had the experience of searching for health information on the Internet. Multivariate analysis showed that the outpatients with higher health anxiety used more search channels (β -0.11, P <0.05) and had more positive attitude towards the internet health information (β= 0.10, P <0.05). Conclusion: It suggests that the health anxiety of outpatients is related to the channel of health information seeking on the Internet and the degree of trust in health information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

本研究以某半導體晶圓代工產業公司工程師為研究對象，透過問卷調查及深度訪談來了解工程師之資訊行為。本研究結果發現：㈠半導體晶圓代工產業工程師之資訊需求目的以提升自我工作能力及解決日常工作為主；㈡工程師之資訊搜尋以文件管道及人際關係管道為主要資訊來源管道，尋找資料過程中最常遭遇到的困難為資訊過載及找不到相關專業資訊；㈢資訊品質及資訊取得容易度為工程師尋求資訊時優先考慮的因素，而取得資訊是否符合需求及資訊之正確性為工程師評估資訊的主要考量點，取得資訊後工程師使用資訊的主要目的為提升工作效率，即時且迅速達成目標或任務；㈣工程師之學歷、職銜，以及工作性質對若干資訊行為有顯著影響。This article takes semiconductor foundry industry engineers as research subjects, and tries to understand their information behavior. This article employs the questionnaire and in-depth interview as the research methodology. There are four primary findings: (1) the information need of an engineer lies in enhancing self’s working-ability and solve problems encountered in daily job; (2) the primary information sources of engineers are documents and interpersonal relationships, and the most difficult problems in seeking information are information overload and too little relevant and professional information; (3) quality and accessibility is the main factor when engineers seek information; whether the information fit demands or not and the information accuracy are the primary points when engineers evaluate information; the main purpose of engineers using information is to work more efficiently and to achieve the goal or mission in a timely manner; (4) the engineers’ educational backgrounds, professional titles, and job functions have significant influences on a few activities of information behavior.

The purpose of this research is to systematically study the information need, seeking, and use behavior of middle school teachers of Taiwan historical resources, and to explore the implications of the findings for digital library system design. This research employs multiple methods, first by qualitative approach followed by quantitative approach. The study investigated elementary and high school teachers, and compared the findings with those of the scholar user group, using literature analysis, deep interview, and questionnaire survey as the methods for data collection, and content analysis, case study, and statistic analysis for data analysis. The results lead to (1) a better understanding of information seeking and use behavior of primary and middle school teachers of Taiwan historical archives; (2) deeper knowledge and empirical data for developing theory on human information behavior of Taiwan local people; (3) identification of important teaching and learning resources on Taiwan and the salient characteristics of those resources; (4) development of information organization guideline for localized digital library and museum systems. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)

The article discusses the searching behaviors of school children using the online catalog and the World Wide Web. The amount of information and search capability for the online catalog and the World Wide Web, though, differ to a great extent, students share several common problems in using them. They have problems in spelling and typing, phrasing of search terms, extracting key concept, formulating search strategy, and evaluating search results. Their specific problems of searching the World Wide Web include rapid navigation of the Internet, overuse of Back button and browsing strategy, and evaluating only the first screen. Teachers and media specialists need to address these problems in the instruction of information literacy skills so that students can fully utilize the power of online searching and become efficient information searchers.

This paper reviews the literature on Internet user studies and analyzed the empirical findings from Internet surveys, user studies of digital libraries, search behavior on search engines, usability studies of websites, etc. Based on the analysis, the author points out the trends of user studies in Library and Information Science and suggests the directions for future research. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)

This article attempts to investigate possible factors affecting mental models in CD-ROM searching. The subjects were college and graduate students of National Taiwan University. They used PsyLIT CD-ROM database to search their own questions. After instructions, 52 subjects did 58 searchers. According to search terms selections, four types of mental models were identified. This article discussed possible factors that influences the above four types of mental models, including subject characteristics, search results and questions. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)

"Browsing as an important part of human information behavior has been obsersved and investigated in the context of information seeking in the library in general and has assumed greater importance in human-machine interaction in particular. However, the nature and consequences of browsing are not well understood, and little is known of the success rate of such behavior. In this research, exploratory empirical case studies from three types of libraries were conducted, using questionnaires, observation logs, intersviews, and computer search logs, to dense the empirical evidence to understand, from the user point of view, what are the consequences of browsing, what constitutes successful browsing, and what factors influence the extent of browsing. Content analysis and statistical analysis were conducted to analyze and synthesize the data. The research results show: (1) There are nine categories of the consequence of browsing, including accidental findings, modification of information need, found the desirable information, learning, feeling relaxation/recreational, information gathering, keeping updated, satisfying curiosity, and not finding what is needed. (2) Four factors that produce successful browsing: intention, the amount or quality of information, the utility of what is found, and help for solving problem or making judgment. (3) Three types of reasons for unsuccessful experience in browsing: not finding what one wanted, Inadequate volume or quality of information, and not finding some things useful or interesting. (4) Three types of reasons for partial success: found the intended object but not happy with the quality or amount of information in it, not finding what one wanted but discovering new or potential useful information, not accomplish one purpose but achieve another one given multiple purposes. (5) The influential factors that affect the extent one engages in browsing include browser's time, scheme of information organization, proximity to information resources, browser's goals, browser's knowledge, browser's experience, browser's interests, browser's expectation, feedback from the information system. This study contributes to and has implications for information seeking theory, information retrieval research, system design and library practices. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)"

While user-centered design has been emphasized, much of the discussion of digital libraries is concerned about choosing Web-based technology to create a digitized collection and establish related infrastructure. An investigation into the potential users of a community-based digital library suggests that some critical social, ecological and cultural aspects of information-related behavior of those users need to be taken into account for a digital library to accomplish its goals. This paper reports on an empirical study of scholarly communication among users of the Taiwan Historical Archives and how those scholars and researchers find and use information. Several design principles are suggested based on the findings of such user study. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)

無The purpose of this research was trying to understand the information seeking behavior derived from the studying and teaching informationo needs of those agricultural researchers. Concluded from the phenomena of their information seeking behavior and the factors behind, it might offer the libraries and other agricultural information service center as a reference to improve their service. The subjects involved in this research were the agricultural teachers at National Chiayi Institute of Agriculture. In this research, there were five questions raised. By way of clarify these five questions as followed, it is possible to reach the purpose of this research. 1.What is the current studying and teaching conditions of the teachers? 2.What kind of studying and teaching situations will make the teachers have information needs? 3.What are the critical ways for the teachers to get needed literature? 4.How do the teachers use formal information channels? 5.How do the teachers use informal information channels? The data supporting this research were gathered through the methods of interview and questionnaire survey. The findings were: on teaching, the major situation having information needs for the teachers occurred when they were compiling texbook or handouts; on studying, it also happened when they wanted to complete the studies subsidized by the National Science Council, Council of Agriculture or Department of Agriculture: Taiwan Provincial Government. The commonest way for the teachers to obtain information resources

In the Internet era, online information is an important source for tourists. Online information seeking plays an essential role in tourists' decision-making and tourism product purchasing, which is also one of the important research topics about tourists' information behavior. This research investigates the behavior of keywords used in online tourism information seeking. First, the study shows that the number of keywords used for information seeking is usually around seven; and the keywords are used approximately 8. 54 times in each seeking process. In a successful information seeking process, the number of the keywords has a direct influence on the search result. There is no doubt that too much information will be discovered if too few keywords are used. So, few-keyword searches increase the difficulty of information discovery and decreases the efficiency of information acquisition. However, if too many or too specific keywords are used, tourists may not be able to get what they want. Secondly, the research result shows that the longer time the tourists spend on information searches, the stronger desire for information they have. Meanwhile, for tourists who are familiar with the destination, they will enter fewer keywords. Both keywords-based semantic analysis and frequency analysis reveal that destination names," ticket", "tourism", names of viewing spots, and the name of the starting place are the most commonly used keywords. Understandably, a destination name is the most frequently used keyword. Tourists narrow down information by specifying a place name, and then search for a specific subject by specifying other keywords. Qualifiers, e. g., "nearby", "cheap", can be added to pinpoint the search goal. Judging from the actual keywords, it is found that instead of interest in higher-level information, such as entertainment or shopping, tourists pay more attention to basic information, such as the scenic spots in the target area, transportation, accommodation, and so on. This finding is similar to the research result of Pan Bing and Hu Xingbao. Thirdly, this study identifies four keywords-based search modes; the destination name plus search content mode which is suitable for all destination tourism information searches, the destination landmark plus hotel mode which is mainly used in hotel information search, the modification search mode which is a process in which tourists approach the search goal by adding or reducing determinant to obtain the most satisfying result, and the associative-word list mode where tourists choose the associated keywords, which are provided automatically by the search engine, to search tourism information. The fourth mode reflects the principle of convenience in the tourists ' search process. Four keywords-based information searching modes summarize the tourists' behavior patterns in tourism information search through search engines and have significant implications for search engine optimization and for constructing specific search engines for tourism. This study is expected to provide references for tourism marketing, tourism website construction, and destination marketing system construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, Wilson's problem-solving model (1999) was used as a research framework for identifying uncertainty among researchers in solving problem. A set of questionnaire items was used to collected quantitative data from respondents (134 valid data). Interview was also used to collect in-depth information from 14 respondents. The findings of this study indicate that scholarly researchers rated highly about the use of scholarly electronic journal. Mean uncertainty ratings in "problem resolution" and "solution statement" were significantly higher than those in "identifying problems" and "defining problem" (p < 0.05). Specifically, relatively high uncertainty level was found in following items: "I was uncertain about whether sufficient in-depth data were covered" and "I was uncertain about whether the data collected reflected my research hypotheses ". Interview data revealed various internal and external experiences attributed to uncertainty in research process. From their research experiences, researchers considered "belief for breakthrough" and "free access to library and information resources" critical for achieving their research goal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]