Research Review on Visually Impaired Users' Information Seeking Behavior

  • Yuan Jiarui ,
  • Deng Xiaozhao
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  • School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715

Received date: 2017-02-23

  Revised date: 2017-05-06

  Online published: 2017-05-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] This study aims to summarize the research status of visually impaired users' information seeking behavior, and propose noteworthy research directions for the future study.[Method/process] Based on literature review of research results relating to visually impaired users' information seeking behavior, and concepts definition, it summarized characteristics, barriers and models of visually impaired users' information seeking behavior.[Result/conclusion] Existing studies focused on visually impaired users' daily information seeking; studies on models and affecting factors of visually impaired users' information seeking behavior, as well as their collaborative information seeking behavior is limited.

Cite this article

Yuan Jiarui , Deng Xiaozhao . Research Review on Visually Impaired Users' Information Seeking Behavior[J]. Library and Information Service, 2017 , 61(10) : 141 -148 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2017.10.019

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