Foundations of unconstrained collaborative Web browsing with awareness

Aneiros, Maria; Estivill‐Castro, Vladimir

doi:10.1109/wi.2003.1241165

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“…Having diversity in collaboration could lead to success (Surowiecki, 2004), but as Aneiros and Estivill-Castro (2003) point out, roles according to positions (manager vs. knowledge workers) can create constraints in collaborative information seeking (CIS). They advised against a master/slave model of collaboration and proposed instead to have unconstrained co-browsing with asymmetric roles.…”

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Collaborative Information Seeking: A Literature Review

Shah¹

2010

Advances in Librarianship

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Collaboration is often required for activities that are too complex or difficult to be dealt with by a single individual. Many situations requiring information-seeking activities also call for people to work together. Often the methods, systems, and tools that provide access to information assume that they are used only by individuals working on their tasks alone. This review points to the need to acknowledge the importance of collaboration in informationseeking processes, to study models, and to develop systems that are specifically designed to enable collaborative information seeking (CIS) tasks. This chapter reviews the literature from various domains including library and information science, human-computer interaction, collaborative systems, and information retrieval. Focus of the review is on the extent to which people work together on information seeking tasks and the systems and tools that are available for them to be successful. Since CIS occurs in the broader context of collaboration in general, a review of literature about collaborations is first undertaken to define it and place it into context with related terms such as cooperation and communication. A more focused review of research follows relating CIS to systems that have attempted to support such interactions. Included are identification and synthesis of a number of core issues in the field and how best to evaluate systems and collaborative tools. Key lessons learned from the review are summarized, and gaps in the literature identified to spur future research and study.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

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Collaborative Information Seeking: A Literature Review

Shah¹

2010

Advances in Librarianship

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“…Awareness is a prominent concept in the CIS studies about source consultation and information use (e.g., Aneiros and Estivill-Castro, 2003, Dourish and Bellotti, 1992, Heath et al, 2002, Shah and Marchionini, 2010. Collaborating actors must be aware of their colleagues' activities to determine how their own activities need to be dynamically adjusted to align with those of their colleagues.…”

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Collaborative information seeking and expertise seeking: different discourses about similar issues

Hertzum

2017

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Purpose-This study compares and contrasts research on collaborative information seeking (CIS) and expertise seeking (EXS) to identify focal themes, blind spots, and possibilities for cross-fertilization. Design/methodology/approach-Existing research was reviewed. The review consisted of a content analysis of 70 (CIS) and 72 (EXS) studies with respect to the context, scope, process, and setting of CIS and EXS, supplemented with a bibliometric analysis of the references in the reviewed studies. Findings-In CIS the context is a group of actors collaborating on a shared task. In EXS the information need is held by an individual but resolved by consulting other people. While the typical scope of EXS studies is source selection, CIS studies mostly concern the consultation of the sources and the use of the obtained information. CIS and EXS studies also attend differentially to the information-seeking process. Only 4% of the references in the reviewed studies are cited in both CIS and EXS research. We conclude that, at present, CIS and EXS are different discourses about similar issues. Research limitations/implications-Increased interaction between CIS and EXS will advance research in both areas and prevent duplication of effort. Topics for future research are identified. It should be noted that the findings are limited to the 142 studies reviewed. Originality/value-By analyzing CIS in the context of EXS, and vice versa, this study provides a fresh look at the information-seeking research that attends to collaboration.

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“…() had the provision where each user could take the lead and guide others in visiting websites. However, Aneiros and Estivill‐Castro () advocated against controlled co‐browsing where one user guides the browsing process for the others (what they referred to as the master/slave model ) and proposed to use a model with unconstrained collaborative web browsing. They argued that such unconstrained collaborative web navigation is essential to allow natural information flow among multiple users.…”

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confidence: 99%

Collaborative information seeking

Shah

2013

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The notions that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and that people working in collaboration for information intensive tasks should be studied and supported have become more prevalent in recent years. Several new research questions, methodologies, and systems have emerged around these notions that may prove to be useful beyond the field of collaborative information seeking (CIS), with relevance to the broader area of information seeking and behavior. This article provides an overview of such key research work from a variety of domains, including library and information science, computer‐supported cooperative work, human‐computer interaction, and information retrieval. It starts with explanations of collaboration and how CIS fits in different contexts, emphasizing the interactive, intentional, and mutually beneficial nature of CIS activities. Relations to similar and related fields such as collaborative information retrieval, collaborative information behavior, and collaborative filtering are also clarified. Next, the article presents a synthesis of various frameworks and models that exist in the field today, along with a new synthesis of 12 different dimensions of group activities. A discussion on issues and approaches relating to evaluating various parameters in CIS follows. Finally, a list of known issues and challenges is presented to provide an overview of research opportunities in this field.

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Foundations of unconstrained collaborative Web browsing with awareness

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