Collaborative Search: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How

✍ Scribed by Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 99
• Series: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Today, Web search is treated as a solitary experience. Web browsers and search engines are typically designed to support a single user, working alone. However, collaboration on information-seeking tasks is actually commonplace. Students work together to complete homework assignments, friends seek information about joint entertainment opportunities, family members jointly plan vacation travel, and colleagues jointly conduct research for their projects. As improved networking technologies and the rise of social media simplify the process of remote collaboration, and large, novel display form-factors simplify the process of co-located group work, researchers have begun to explore ways to facilitate collaboration on search tasks. This lecture investigates the who, what, where, when and why of collaborative search, and gives insight in how emerging solutions can address collaborators' needs. Table of Contents: Introduction / Who? / What? / Where? / When? / Why? / Conclusion: How?

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments......Page 9
Credits......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
Scenario: Collaboration Today......Page 16
What?......Page 18
When?......Page 19
Why?......Page 20
Specific Populations......Page 21
Relationships among Collaborators......Page 22
Who: Conclusions and Future Directions......Page 26
Collaborative Search Tasks......Page 29
Collaborative Strategies and Tactics......Page 32
What: Conclusions and Future Directions......Page 37
Remote Collaboration......Page 39
Example: SearchTogether......Page 43
Co-located Collaboration......Page 46
Example: CoSearch......Page 54
Example: WeSearch......Page 58
Where: Conclusions and Future Directions......Page 61
Asynchronous Collaboration......Page 63
Example: S3 (Storable, Shareable Search)......Page 64
Synchronous Collaboration......Page 67
When: Conclusions and Future Directions......Page 69
Shared Interest in a Topic......Page 75
Shared Social Interests......Page 77
Introducing Potential Collaborators......Page 80
Why: Conclusions and Future Directions......Page 82
Conclusion: How?......Page 83
Scenario: Collaboration Tomorrow......Page 84
Glossary......Page 87
Bibliography......Page 91
Authors' Biographies......Page 99