Christiaan Flink

The Skill to Handle Information Overload

Construction and Evaluation of an Assessment Tool

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With the ever growing amount of available information, people have to find skills to handle this overload of information. This research discusses the factors that contribute to the experienced information overload, divided into five categories: Information characteristics, task characteristics, personal factors, organizational factors and information technology factors. By varying the information and task characteristics in a simulation game and measuring people's performance we were able to distinguish between people's skill to handle information overload. In the constructed assessment game, people had to make decisions in a situation with high information load, and their performance was assessed by taking the efficiency of these decisions into account. To validate our test's results, various controlling tests where used with positive outcomes. Based on the two studies we conclude that the constructed test is a valid tool to distinguish in people's skill to handle information overload, with the preservation that the reliability of the adaptive test has to be further investigated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9783843355582
• ISBN-10: 3843355584
• Artikelnr.: 32004381

Autorenporträt

Chris wrote this thesis to complete his Master in Computer & Information science at Utrecht University. Nowadays he is working as an ICT consultant specialized in adopting current web technologies for a creative and innovative web agency. Chris has a great interest in (future) web technologies, open source, cognitive psychology and social media.