Using collaborative filtering to weave an information tapestry
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
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INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
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The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Role-based results redistribution for collaborative information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Exploring information seeking processes in collaborative search tasks
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Evaluating the synergic effect of collaboration in information seeking
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
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Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
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CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
Search tactics as means of examining search processes in collaborative exploratory web search
Proceedings of the 5th Ph.D. workshop on Information and knowledge
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Exploring tourists' collaborative web search: implications for system design
AWC '13 Proceedings of the First Australasian Web Conference - Volume 144
Modeling search processes using hidden states in collaborative exploratory web search
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Though much information behaviour takes place in collaborative settings, information behaviour processes are commonly perceived and modelled by information scientists as individual processes. The paper presents and discusses the findings from a qualitative preliminary case study exploring Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP) model in a group-based educational setting. The aim of the study was to explore if members of a group behave differently from the individual modelled in the ISP model and further, if members of a group demonstrate different behaviours or they will assimilate and turn the group into 'an individual', just in another sense. During a project assignment, which lasted seven weeks, two groups of information science students filled out a questionnaire and kept diaries of their activities and information-related behaviour. Further, the students were interviewed three times each during the study. It was found that contextual and social factors seem to affect group members' physical activities and their cognitive and emotional experiences during a project assignment with relevance to information behaviour. Though group members to some extent demonstrated similar cognitive experiences as the individual in the ISP model, these experiences did not only result from information seeking activities but also from work task activities and intragroup interactions. Regarding group members' emotional experiences, no emotional 'turning point' resulting in certainty and relief by the end of the information seeking process was identified. Further, some of the group members still felt uncertain, frustrated and disappointed at the end of the project assignment, which partly was associated with a mis-match in motivations, ambitions and project focus among group members. Regarding the intragroup behaviour, group members did not demonstrate similar behaviours, meaning that 'groups' cannot be perceived or modelled as 'an individual', just in another sense. Groups consist of individuals engaged in and affected by a collaborative problem solving process involving information (seeking) behaviour. A natural extension of the ISP model in relation to group processes is suggested, addressing also the impact of social and contextual factors on the individual's information behaviour.