The eleventh episode of the series describes the information horizon interview, (IHI, for short) a diagrammatic elicitation method created by Dr. Diane Sonnenwald. It is the only original visual research method to emerge from my own field of Information Science. The IHI is a way to visually document all the information resources and information behaviours perceived by a person in any given context. Below are references to Sonnenwald’s major writings on the IHI; notable extensions by information scientists; and my own relevant publications.
Sonnenwald, D. H., Wildemuth, B. M., & Harmon, G. L. (2001). A Research Method Using the Concept of Information Horizons: an Example from a Study of Lower Socio Economic Students’ Information Seeking Behaviour. The New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 2, 65-86.
Sonnenwald, D.H. (2005). Information Horizons, In: K. Fisher, S. Erdelez, & L. McKechnie (Eds). Theories of Information Behaviour: A Researcher’s Guide. NY: Springer.
Hartel, J (2017). Information Behaviour, Visual Research, and the Information Horizon Interview: Three Ways. Information Research, 22(1), CoLIS paper 1635.
Fourie, I., Agarwal, N. K., Sonnenwald, D. H., Julien, H., Rorissa, A., & Detlor, B. (2022). Everyday Information Behavior of Marginalized Communities in the Global South: Informal Transportation as Example. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 565-569.
Greyson, D. (2013). Information World Mapping: A Participatory, Visual, Elicitation Activity for Information Practice Interviews. American Society for Information Science and Technology. Meeting. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 50(1), 1-4.
Huvila, I. (2009). Analytical Information Horizon Maps. Library & Information Science Research, 31(1), 18-28.
Savolainen, R., & Kari, J. (2004). Placing the Internet in Information Source Horizons. A Study of Information Seeking by Internet Users in the Context of Self-Development. Library & Information Science Research, 26(4), 415-433.
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