Abstraction

, 78–79

identity as

, 83–84

Abtrinsic information

, 50

Accomplishment

, 150, 152

Adtrinsic information

, 50

Affective components

, 150

Affective information

, 51

Ambiguity

, 1–2, 108–109

American Library Association (ALA)

, 128

Antecedents of personal meaning

, 148–151

“Anti-plastic straw” movement

, 46

Anxiety

, 46–47, 62, 126

Art

, 25–26, 140

Art therapy

, 105

Art-making process, understanding and

, 25–26

Artists

, 24–26, 36

Athletes

, 24–26

Attributes

, 119–120

Autobiographical self

, 69

Autonomous information

, 51

Being informed

, 90–92, 97–98

Beliefs

, 42

#BlackLivesMatter

, 78

Capitalism

, 100

Care

and ontic bonds

, 94–95

for thyself

, 96

Centripetal force

, 150

Circle of moral concern

, 125

Climate change

, 44–48

Codes of ethics

, 156

Cognitive biases

, 42–43

Cognitive information

, 51

Cognitive science

, 42–43

Communication

, 43

Computable subjectivity

, 70

Conceptual knowledge

, 31–32

Conceptualization

, 78

Conglomerations of information

, 32

Consciousness

, 71

Contemporary notions of relevance

, 118

Continuity-making

, 77–78

Core self

, 69

Craeft

, 137–138

Craft

and information

, 141–144

and meaning

, 136–138

and poiesis

, 138–140

Craft

, 140

Crisis of meaning

, 59, 95, 97, 114–116

Cura personalis

, 128

Depression

, 117, 126

Design strategies for understanding

, 56–63

information experience design

, 58

intentional struggle

, 61–63

multiple perspectives

, 56–59

Designing for meaning

mood for designing for personal meaning

, 154–156

personal meaning and antecedents

, 148–151

slow technology and turn to meaning in HCI

, 146–148

techniques for cultivating personal meaning

, 151–154

Designing for self

self-care and technologies

, 100–103

from self-portraiture to selfies

, 103–105

strategies for

, 105–109

Dignity

, 124

Document

, 49

as answers

, 32–33

document experience, character of

, 49–50

society

, 103–104

work as questioning

, 33–36

Donne, John

, 92–93

Dormant document

, 49–50

Emotional experience

, 8

Equality

, 124

Esthetic experience

, 8

Ethics

, 12

Ethics of being informed

, 90–92

Eudaimonia

, 129

Everyday life

, 10, 72

Exentropy

, 130

Existentialism

, 103

Experience

economy

, 5–6

of information literacy

, 6

of meaning

, 8

Experiencing cognitive–affective information

, 9–10

Experiencing sensory information

, 9–10

Extrinsic information

, 50, 51

Fiction

, 19, 22, 126–127

File-self

, 73

Flourishing

with information

, 129–131

informational

, 131–134

Flow of existence

, 1, 7–8, 77–78

Formative reading

, 44–45

Functional information

, 51

Gauguin, Paul

, 34–39

Gibson’s theory of affordances

, 116

GIFT app

, 154

Good life

, 124, 128–129

crisis of meaning

, 126–128

flourishing with information

, 129–131

informational flourishing in ultrarunning

, 131–134

Good Place, The

, 44

GoSlow app

, 147–148

Gratitude

, 156

Group identity

, 81–82, 85–87

Heidegger, Martin

, 3–4, 23, 32, 37, 39, 59

Hermeneutic phenomenology

, 3–4

Human flourishing relies

, 130

Human-centered paradigm

, 5

Human–computer interaction (HCI)

, 3, 146

slow technology and turn to meaning in

, 146–148

Hypomnemata

, 101

Identity

, 78, 89

as abstraction

, 83–84

abstraction and levels of abstraction

, 78–79

defining

, 79–82

information and

, 84–87

work

, 84

Information

, 18, 29–30, 42, 91, 113

artifacts

, 141

athletes and artists

, 24–26

craft and

, 141–144

epistemic aims for

, 19–23

and epistemology

, 19

field

, 160

further research with understanding

, 26–27

and identity

, 84–87

knowledge

, 20

learning

, 20–21

making meaning from

, 116–118

need

, 31

object

, 49–50

organizations

, 30

professional

, 160

provision

, 128

in religious conversions

, 44–46

Schools

, 159–160

as self-construction

, 74–75

signals

, 100

for social change

, 46–48

society

, 123

studies

, 1–2

technologies

, 72

theory entropy

, 91

understanding

, 21–24

wisdom

, 22–23

Information behavior (IB)

, 2, 3, 26–27

research

, 136

Information experience

, 3, 5–7, 17, 19–20, 70, 125, 159

conceptualizing

, 7–11

design

, 58

disciplinary setting

, 2–3

experience

, 7–8

maxims of

, 10–11

as phenomenon

, 9–10

philosophical foundations

, 3–5

as research approach

, 10

two senses of information experience

, 8–10

Information literacy (IL)

, 2, 3, 57, 75

movement

, 20–21

Information seeking

, 113–114

experiences

, 10

Information-as-knowledge

, 74

Information-as-process

, 74, 142–143

Information-as-thing

, 74

Informational ontology

, 73–74, 91, 119–120

Informational self

, 70–74

Information–ethical frameworks

, 91

Informative reading

, 44–45

Informed learning design

, 57–58

Informed systems

, 58–59

Informing Practice

, 3

Intentional struggle

, 61–63

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)

, 24

Intrinsic information

, 50, 51

Irony

, 109, 151, 153, 155–156

iSchool Movement

, 3, 159–160

Jardin secret

, 106–108

Justice

, 124

Know thyself

, 96

Kundera, Milan

, 134

Latham’s conceptual model

, 50

Learning

, 20–21

Level of abstraction (LoA)

, 78–79

LGBTQ+

, 86

Liberty

, 124

Life Review intervention

, 146, 152

Life-relevant learning

, 147–148

Live Review in psychology

, 152–153

Love

, 151

Mahabharata

, 124

Makerspaces

, 135–136, 143

Making Art

, 25–26

Mars Climate Orbiter disaster

, 79

Mass communication media

, 46

Mattering

, 115–116

Meaning

, 114–116

craft and

, 136–138

crisis of

, 126–128

information and personal meaning

, 118–121

making meaning from information

, 116–118

Metaphysical entropy

, 91, 129

Metaphysical negentropy

, 97

Modeling information and moral knowledge

, 48–53

change resulting from experience

, 51

character of document experience

, 49–50

from individual to social change

, 51–53

Montaigne, Michel de

, 109

Mood for designing for personal meaning

, 154–156

Moral change

information for social change

, 46–48

information in religious conversions

, 44–46

modeling information and moral knowledge

, 48–53

moral knowledge

, 43–44

Moral knowledge

, 42–44

modeling information and

, 48–53

Museum

, 143–144, 144

Negentropy

, 130

Occupational therapy

, 137–138

Ontic ethics

, 91

Ontic trust

, 92–94

care and ontic bonds

, 94–95

ethics of being informed

, 90–92

self and

, 96–98

Ontic understandings

, 23

Onto-ethico-epistemology

, 12

Ontological understanding

, 23

Ontology

, 12

Opioid crisis

, 126

Orality

, 100–101

Outcomes of information

, 2, 9, 43, 51

Perfectionism

, 97, 127

Personal identity

, 84–85

Personal meaning

, 127, 146

and antecedents

, 148–151

information and

, 118–121

mood for designing for

, 154–156

techniques for cultivating

, 151–154

Phenomenography

, 3

Phenomenology

, 3–4

Philosophy

, 12–13

of information

, 114, 78

Plato

, 53, 61, 70–71

Poiesis, craft and

, 138–140

Poietic judgment in philosophy

, 153–154

Political polarization

, 59

Polysemy

, 1–2

Poor Richard's Almanac

, 129

Practical knowledge

, 42

Pragmatism

, 115–116

Purpose

, 80, 149

Questioning

, 29–30, 32

danger of answering

, 37–39

document work as

, 33–36

documents as answers

, 32–33

understanding and

, 36–37

Religious conversion

, 46

Republic (Plato)

, 53, 61

Responsive courage

, 151

Reverse Alarm Clock

, 153

Romeo and Juliet

, 98

Rube-Goldbergian mechanism

, 19

Sanctuary

, 107

Sea turtles

, 46–47

Self

, 83, 89

information as self-construction

, 74–75

informational self

, 70–74

and ontic trust

, 96–98

theories of

, 68–70

theorizing self

, 68–70

Self-care

, 96

and technologies

, 100–103

Self-documentation

, 75, 104

Self-efficacy

, 150, 152

Self-portraiture to selfies

, 103–105

Self-questioning

, 106, 108

Self-worth

, 150, 152

Selfies, self-portraiture to

, 103–105

Sense-making

, 73–74, 116

Sensory information

, 9–10

Serious leisure

, 125, 136

Shared information experiences

, 26–27

Slow movements

, 60

Slow technology

, 59–60, 146–148

“Slow Thought: A Manifesto”

, 60

Slowness

, 58–59

Social change, information for

, 46–48

Social epistemology

, 19, 21

Social identity

, 81

Social media

, 127

Societal beliefs

, 46

Socratic principle of self-care

, 101

Structuring information

, 30

Sustainability

, 120–121

Systems thinking

, 58–59

Tech firms

, 100

Technologies of the self

, 101–102

Technology

, 127

digital

, 123

modern

, 37

self-care and

, 100–103

slow

, 146–148

Temporality

, 53

Thermodynamics

, 91

“Theseus’ ship”

, 68

Time

, 77–78

Transformative reading

, 44–45

TuneTracker

, 108

Twitter

, 46

U.S. Declaration of Independence

, 43–44, 129

Ultrarunning

, 131–134

Unamuno, Miguel de

, 138–139

Understanding

, 18, 21–24, 57, 59

design strategies for

, 56–63

further research with

, 26–27

and questioning

, 36–37

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

, 124

User experience (UX)

, 5–6

Userism

, 4–5

Waggle tool

, 63

Westboro Baptist Church

, 45

Wisdom

, 22–23

Woolf, Virginia

, 92

“Worker’s enquiry”

, 33

Yellowstone National Park

, 47–48