Reduce Information Avoidance in Academic Reading by Group Formation

Information avoidance has mainly occurred in the field of psychology, economics, and health. The information avoidance was also found in students' academic reading, causing students to lose some information after reading the literature. To reduce the information avoidance, this paper proposes a grouping system with digital paper. In this system, students will be divided into different group by reading logs and have a discussion after reading the whole literature. Through group communication, students can regain lost information to reduce the missing of information avoidance. This paper also proposes a scheme to group students according to their marking habits to see if the results are more useful for reducing information avoidance