EAN: 9783642288128

COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION SEEKING - CHIRAG SHAH...

Today's complex  information-intensive problems often require people to work together. Mostly
these tasks go far beyond simply searching together  they include information lookup  sharing 
synthesis  and decision-making. In addition  they all have an end-goal that is mutually
beneficial to all parties involved. Such collaborative information seeking (CIS) projects
typically last several sessions and the participants all share an intention to contribute and
benefit. Not surprisingly  these processes are highly interactive. Shah focuses on two
individually well-understood notions: collaboration and information seeking  with the goal of
bringing them together to show how it is a natural tendency for humans to work together on
complex tasks. The first part of his book introduces the general notions of collaboration and
information seeking  as well as related concepts  terminology  and frameworks  and thus
provides the reader with a comprehensive treatment of the concepts underlying CIS. The second
part of the book details CIS as a standalone domain. A series of frameworks  theories  and
models are introduced to provide a conceptual basis for CIS. The final part describes several
systems and applications of CIS  along with their broader implications on other fields such as
computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and human-computer interaction (HCI). With this
first comprehensive overview of an exciting new research field  Shah delivers to graduate
students and researchers in academia and industry an encompassing description of the
technologies involved  state-of-the-art results  and open challenges as well as research
opportunities.

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