An Agent Framework for Intranet Document Management
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Design and evaluation of a multi-agent collaborative Web mining system
Decision Support Systems - Web retrieval and mining
Collaborative information retrieval in an information-intensive domain
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Meta-searches in peer-to-peer networks
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
SearchTogether: an interface for collaborative web search
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Use of collaborative recommendations for web search: an exploratory user study
Journal of Information Science
Crafting an environment for collaborative reasoning
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Collaborative Information Retrieval in an information-intensive domain
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
COPLINK agent: an architecture for information monitoring and sharing in law enforcement
ISI'03 Proceedings of the 1st NSF/NIJ conference on Intelligence and security informatics
Division of labour and sharing of knowledge for synchronous collaborative information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Examining group work: implications for the digital library as Sharium
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Observations of Information Retrieval (IR) system user experiences reveal strong desires for collaborative search efforts; however the same user experiences suggest that collaborative capabilities are rarely, and then only in a limited fashion, supported by current tools for searching and visualizing query results. Equally interesting is the fact that observations of user experiences with Group Support Systems (GSS) reveal that access to external information and the ability to search for relevant material is often vital to the progress of GSS sessions, however these same user experiences suggest that integrated support for collaborative searching and visualization of results is lacking in GSS systems. After reviewing user experiences described in both IR and GSS literature and observing and interviewing users of existing IR and GSS commercial and prototype systems, the Author's conclude that the demand for systems supporting multi-user IR is obvious. It is surprising to the Authors that very little attention has been given to the common ground shared by these two important research domains. With this in mind, Our paper describes how user experiences with IR and GSS systems has shed light onto a promising new area of collaborative research and led to the development of a prototype that merges the two paradigms into a Collaborative Information Retrieval Environment (CIRE). Finally the paper presents theory developed from initial user experiences with our prototype and describes our plans to empirically test the efficacy of this new paradigm through controlled experimentation.