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- Provides the first comprehensive overview of an exciting new research field, combining information retrieval, groupware, human-computer interaction, and Web design
- Demonstrates how traditional theories and models of information seeking as well as groupware systems relate to the newer notions of social media and participatory Web applications
- Discusses not only theories, models, and systems relating to CIS, but also challenges and opportunities for researchers and developers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Information Retrieval Series (INRE, volume 34)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Understanding of CIS
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CIS Systems, Applications, and Implications
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Back Matter
About this book
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 parties involved. Such “collaborative information seeking” (CIS) projects typically last several sessions and the participants all share an intention to contribute and benefit. Not surprisingly, these processes are highly interactive.
Shah focuses on two individually well-understood notions: collaboration and information seeking, with the goal of bringing them together to show how it is a natural tendency for humans to work together on complex tasks. The first part of his book introduces the general notions of collaboration and information seeking, as well as related concepts, terminology, and frameworks; and thus provides the reader with a comprehensive treatment of the concepts underlying CIS. The second part of the book details CIS as a standalone domain. A series of frameworks, theories, and models are introduced to provide a conceptual basis for CIS. The final part describes several systems and applications of CIS, along with their broader implications on other fields such as computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and human-computer interaction (HCI).
With this first comprehensive overview of an exciting new research field, Shah delivers to graduate students and researchers in academia and industry an encompassing description of the technologies involved, state-of-the-art results, and open challenges as well as research opportunities.Reviews
From the reviews:
“The theory and systems of collaborative information seeking as well as the evaluation thereof, is the focus of Shah’s new book, Collaborative Information Seeking. … Collaborative Information Seeking is essential reading for collaborative information seeking scholars. It reads easily, is well organised and provides both a framework for thinking about and studying collaborative information seeking.” (Madely du Preez, Online Information Review, Vol. 37 (3), 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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School of Communication & Information, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA
Chirag Shah
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collaborative Information Seeking
Book Subtitle: The Art and Science of Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of All
Authors: Chirag Shah
Series Title: The Information Retrieval Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28813-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28812-8Published: 04 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43899-8Published: 09 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28813-5Published: 04 July 2012
Series ISSN: 1871-7500
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6836
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 185
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Database Management, Computers and Society, Communication Studies