Collaborative Information Seeking The Art and Science of Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of All /

• Main Author: Shah, Chirag (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 34
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Computers and civilization.; Communication.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Computers and Society.; Communication Studies.

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 parti...