Exploring information seeking processes in collaborative search tasks

Collaborative Information Seeking Behavior: Concepts and Theories

Background and Aim: Collaborative information seeking is an interaction among members of a group who purposefully try to access and share joint information. Although collaboration is a key component of information seeking behavior, but most of the studies in this area are focused on individual information seeking behavior and collaborative aspects are considered much less. As a result, there is...

Exploring Knowledge Learning in Collaborative Information Seeking Process

Knowledge learning is recognized as an important component in people’s search process. Existing studies on this topic usually measure the knowledge growth before and after a search. However, there still lacks a fine-grained understanding of users’ knowledge change patterns within a search process and users’ adoption of different sources for learning. In this on-going project, we are exploring a...

Exploring Reality-Based User Interfaces for Collaborative Information Seeking

Exploring Reality-Based User Interfaces for Collaborative Information Seeking

Evaluating Collaborative Search Interfaces with Information Seeking Theory

Despite the many implicit references to the social aspects of search within Information Seeking and Retrieval research, there has been relatively little work that has specifically investigated the additional requirements for collaborative search software. In this paper we re-assess a recent evaluation framework, designed for individual information seeking experiences, to see a) how it could sti...