Collaborative Information Seeking Best Practices, New Domains and New Thoughts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hansen, Preben (Editor), Shah, Chirag (Editor), Klas, Claus-Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer system failures.; Computers.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Information Systems and Communication Service.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Computing Methodologies.

 Compiled by world- class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. Coveri...

Table of Contents:

• Editorial
• Part I: Best Practices and Studies
• Collaborative Information Seeking - From ‘What?’ and ‘Why?’ to ‘How?’ and ‘So What?’
• Studying Collaborative Information Seeking: Experiences with Three Methods
• Situating CIS - The Importance of Context in Collaborative Information Seeking
• Procedures and Collaborative Information Seeking: A Study of Emergency Departments
• Collaborative Information Seeking in the Context of Leisure and Work Task Situations
• Part II: New Domains
• Learning through Collaborative Information Seeking
• A Proposed CIS Interface Based on the Analysis of Problem-Solving in Online Technical Support
• Collaborative Information Use with Technology
• Part III: New Thoughts
• A Probability Ranking Principle for Collaborative Search
• Affective Dimension in Collaborative Information Seeking
• Collaborative Information Seeking Around Big Data.