Browsing is a collaborative process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A finger on the pulse: temporal rhythms and information seeking in medical work
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Collaborative Searching for Video Using the Físchlár System and a DiamondTouch Table
TABLETOP '06 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems
Evaluation campaigns and TRECVid
MIR '06 Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval
SearchTogether: an interface for collaborative web search
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A survey of collaborative web search practices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A study of awareness in multimedia search
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Collaborative awareness in multimedia search
MM '08 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Collaborative information seeking and retrieval
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Evaluating the synergic effect of collaboration in information seeking
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
MIRA'99 Proceedings of the 1999 international conference on Final Mira
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We present a user study involving 80 participants in 40 pairs about the implications of four time-space conditions in a collaborative information seeking task, namely: co-located, remotely located with text chat, remotely located with audio chat, and asynchronous. Results suggest that when individuals are co-located, their search behaviors tend to overlap thus affecting their ability to find diverse and useful information. On the other hand, when people are remotely located, the levels of independency and diversity depend upon the richness of the communication channel being used. Finally, when collaborative search is performed asynchronously, team members reach high levels of independency at the cost of effectiveness. These findings are particularly essential in various areas of research and application such as human-computer interaction (HCI) and information retrieval (IR), providing additional knowledge that would enable system designers to provide better support for the information search process of teams.