Collaborative information seeking and retrieval

Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users

“…Collaborative IR systems that support group information-seeking and retrieval have emerged recently as a popular area in IR (see [102] for an overview; [153,199]). Researchers in computer supportive cooperative work (CSCW) and educational technologies have studied systems that support collaborative work for some time.…”

Integrating the group within models of information processes

“…Just as the boundaries between standard information processes, and the terms used to reference those processes are blurred, so too are the ways in which groups and collaboration are discussed in the information world. Perhaps the most restrictive perspective is that of Foster (2006) whose definition is based on a synthesis of prior research. Unlike the more recent work in individual information processes (see for example, Ingwersen & Jarvelin, 2005), Foster ignores the role of task and environment.…”

“…A holistic concept has yet to emerge. (Foster, 2006) "the study of the systems and practices that enable individuals to collaborate during the seeking, searching, and retrieval of information" Collaborative Information Behaviour (Talja & Hansen, 2006) "broadly defined as an activity where two or more actors communicate to identify information for accomplishing a task or solving a problem" Collaborative Information Behaviour (Hyldegard, 2006) "The physical activities and cognitive and emotional experiences of individuals acting as group members, engaged in a collaborative problem solving process involving information (seeking) behaviour" Collaborative information seeking (Hertzum, 2007) "information -seeking activities performed by actors to inform their collaborative work combined with the collaborative-grounding activities involved in making this information part of the actors' shared understanding of their work" Collaborative information seeking (Hansen & Jarvelin, 2005) "an active and explicit seeking and retrieval of information for solving a specific task Collaborative Information Retrieval (Poltrock et al, 2003, p. 239) "the activities that a group or team of people undertakes to identify and resolve a shared information need" Collaborative Information Retrieval (Fidel et al, 2004). …”

On the Collaboration Support in Information Retrieval

“…• Collaborative ltering [76,96], in which the relevance depends on preferences of users with same interests; • Social IR [3,87], which takes into account users' interactions through the social network and social evidence sources, such as the users' betweenness or authority; • Collaborative IR (CIR) [27,30], in which several users work together with the goal of solving a complex information need.…”

“…With this in mind, CIR has been deemed as bene cial for solving complex or exploratory search tasks [27]. The bene t of such a setting is that it enables us to gather complementary skills to overpass the lack of knowledge of a unique user [18,105,128].…”