Nigel Ford

TL;DR: The notion of serendipity is reinterprets as a phenomenon arising from both conditions and strategies – as both a purposive and a non‐purposive component of information seeking and related knowledge acquisition.

TL;DR: Support is provided for the notion that matching and mismatching can have significant effects on learning outcomes and on gender, matching mainly affecting male students.

TL;DR: The learning behaviour and performance of 65 postgraduate students using a hypermedia-based tutorial were measured and data was obtained on cognitive style, levels of prior experience, motivation, age, and gender and a number of statistically significant interactions were found.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of individual differences in Internet searching was investigated and the results showed that retrieval effectiveness was linked to male gender, low cognitive complexity, an imager cognitive style, and a number of Internet perceptions and study approaches.

TL;DR: This project has investigated the processes of mediated information retrieval (IR) searching during human information-seeking processes to characterize aspects of this process, including information seekers' changing situational contexts; information problems; uncertainty reduction; successive searching, cognitive styles; and cognitive and affective states.