Collaborative Information Seeking
The Art and Science of Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of All
Authors: Shah, Chirag
- 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
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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. - About the authors
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Chirag Shah is an assistant professor at the Department of Library and Information Science (LIS) within the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. His research interests include various aspects of interactive information retrieval/seeking, especially in the context of online social networks and collaborations, contextual information mining, and applications of social media services for exploring critical socio-political issues. He has published extensively on these topics, and received Best Paper awards at several renowned conferences.
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“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)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Collaborative Information Seeking
- Book Subtitle
- The Art and Science of Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of All
- Authors
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- Chirag Shah
- Series Title
- The Information Retrieval Series
- Series Volume
- 34
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-28813-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-28813-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-28812-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-43899-8
- Series ISSN
- 1387-5264
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 185
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 38 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
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