Lessons and Challenges for Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) Systems Developers
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The developers of collaborative information seeking (CIS) systems face many unique challenges, above and beyond the issues raised by traditional single-user information systems. We present lessons derived from the general area of collaboration, as well as from information seeking domain, which can help one understand various design considerations for developing a CIS system. A number of challenges for system developers are listed, along with several suggestions for designing a successful CIS system.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009