In summary, this evolving framework incorporates cognitive, social, and system
perspectives and builds on theories in information and library science, communication,
sociology, and psychology. Human information behavior, including information exploration,
seeking, filtering, use, and communication, are included (to varying degrees) in the framework.
It suggests social networks play an important role in human information behavior through
helping to define an individual’s information horizon and through actively participating in the
human information process. Future work includes elucidating the framework and exploring how
the framework may guide the design of systems to support human information behavior.