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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Introduction
• Introduction
• Collaboration
• Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) in Context
• Part II Conceptual Understanding of CIS
• Frameworks for CIS Research and Development
• Toward a Model for CIS
• Part III CIS Systems, Applications, and Implications
• Systems and Tools for CIS
• Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Ten Stories of Five Cs
• Brief Overview of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
• Brief Overview of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
• Brief Overview of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC).