老年人在线信息搜寻行为研究述评

A Review of Online Information Seeking Behavior of the Elderly

[目的/意义]梳理老年人信息搜寻行为的研究进展,有助于厘清老年人在线信息搜寻行为的特征及影响机制,可为老年人网络平台设计、信息资源组织和智能设备研发提供可靠的认识论依据,为顺利推进“智慧医养”建设提供启示。[研究设计/方法]回顾国内外老年人信息搜寻行为研究文献,归纳、分析其主要的研究内容、理论、方法、情境等。[结论/发现]相关研究主要集中在老年人信息搜寻行为影响因素、老年人信息搜寻过程和老年人信息搜寻结果三个方面。当前研究存在跨文化研究和基于纵向数据的研究较少等核心问题;跨文化的老年人信息搜寻行为、将游戏化思想引入老年人信息搜寻过程、进行大样本的自然搜索实验研究等是未来研究中值得关注的几个方向。[创新/价值]详细梳理了老年人在线信息搜寻行为研究进展,指出现有研究存在的问题,并提出未来可关注的研究方向。

[Purpose/Significance]Reviewing the research progress of the elderly’s information seeking behavior contributes to sort out the features and influence mechanism of their online information seeking behavior,and provides reliable epistemological evidence for the design of network platform for the elderly,the online information resources organization as well as the research and development of intelligent devices.It also brings inspiration to promote the construction of"Intelligent Medical Care".[Design/Methodology]Through literature review on information seeking behavior of the elderly at home and abroad,this paper made a summary and analysis on the main research contents,theories,methods and situations.[Findings/Conclusion]The majority of research focuses on three aspects,including the impact factors of the elderly’s information seeking behavior,their information seeking process,and their information seeking results.There are some core problems in the existing studies,such as lack of cross-cultural or longitudinal data-based research.And several research directions are worthy of our attention in the future,including cross-cultural information seeking behavior of the elderly,introducing gamification thinking,and conducting more natural seeking experimental research by collecting large amount of samples.[Originality/Value]This paper comprehensively studies the research progress of online information seeking behavior of the elderly,points out the problems in the existing research,and puts forward the future research directions that could be paid attention to.