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Awareness in collaborative information seeking

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  • Chirag Shah
  • Gary Marchionini

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Support for explicit collaboration in information‐seeking activities is increasingly recognized as a desideratum for search systems. Several tools have emerged recently that help groups of people with the same information‐seeking goals to work together. Many issues for these collaborative information‐seeking (CIS) environments remain understudied. The authors identified awareness as one of these issues in CIS, and they presented a user study that involved 42 pairs of participants, who worked in collaboration over 2 sessions with 3 instances of the authors' CIS system for exploratory search. They showed that while having awareness of personal actions and history is important for exploratory search tasks spanning multiple sessions, support for group awareness is even more significant for effective collaboration. In addition, they showed that support for such group awareness can be provided without compromising usability or introducing additional load on the users.

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  • Chirag Shah & Gary Marchionini, 2010. "Awareness in collaborative information seeking," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 61(10), pages 1970-1986, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:61:y:2010:i:10:p:1970-1986
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21379
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    1. Vera Granikov & Reem El Sherif & France Bouthillier & Pierre Pluye, 2022. "Factors and outcomes of collaborative information seeking: A mixed studies review with a framework synthesis," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 73(4), pages 542-560, April.
    2. Fernanda Pedro & Ernesto Giglio & Luis Velazquez & Nora Munguia, 2021. "Constructed Governance as Solution to Conflicts in E-Waste Recycling Networks," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-22, February.

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