A Taxonomy of Collaboration in Online Information Seeking
Information Retrieval
2009-08-06 v1 Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract
People can help other people find information in networked information seeking environments. Recently, many such systems and algorithms have proliferated in industry and in academia. Unfortunately, it is difficult to compare the systems in meaningful ways because they often define collaboration in different ways. In this paper, we propose a model of possible kinds of collaboration, and illustrate it with examples from literature. The model contains four dimensions: intent, depth, concurrency and location. This model can be used to classify existing systems and to suggest possible opportunities for design in this space.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.0704,
title = {A Taxonomy of Collaboration in Online Information Seeking},
author = {Gene Golovchinsky and Jeremy Pickens and Maribeth Back},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0704},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Presented at 1st Intl Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking, 2008 (arXiv:0908.0583)