Groupware: some issues and experiences
Communications of the ACM
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Workspace awareness for groupware
Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Browsing is a collaborative process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Footprints: history-rich tools for information foraging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Visual preview for link traversal on the World Wide Web
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Improving Web usability with the link lens
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Focused crawling: a new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Adding support for dynamic and focused search with Fetuccino
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
A scrollbar-based visualization for document navigation
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
WTMS: a system for collecting for collecting and analyzing topic-specific Web information
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
SearchPad: explicit capture of search context to support Web search
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Electronic peer review and peer grading in computer-science courses
Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Using thumbnails to search the Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Optimizing search by showing results in context
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Scaling question answering to the Web
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
When experts agree: using non-affiliated experts to rank popular topics
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Knowledge encapsulation for focused search from pervasive devices
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
The social web cockpit: support for virtual communities
GROUP '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
How knowledge workers use the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative information retrieval (CIR)
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
What do web users do? An empirical analysis of web use
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The design of history mechanisms and their use in collaborative educational simulations
CSCL '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
MetaWeb: bringing synchronous groupware to the world wide web
ECSCW'97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Cooperative Systems Design: Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations -- Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication
Division of labour and sharing of knowledge for synchronous collaborative information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Let's Shop Online Together: An Empirical Investigation of Collaborative Online Shopping Support
Information Systems Research
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The World Wide Web provides a convenient and inexpensive infrastructure for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Groupware systems allow distant users to work together in a shared virtual workspace. Awareness of group members' actions is a basic feature and key functionality for groupware. Many times a group of people work together researching information on the Web about a topic. This type of collaboration can be decomposed into two tasks. First, team members have to access, process and filter by importance the Web pages gathered. Second, they have to synthesize and present them either as a whole in the form of a report, or in an organized way in the form of Web directories. A key issue that strongly affects this particular type of cooperative work is the revisiting of pages and, consequently, the time spent on accessing and processing the same information sources, which may be relevant or not to the topic. We propose group member URL traversal awareness (GMUTA) as significant functionality for Web-based collaboration tools in order to avoid conflicting or repetitive actions by group members. We then present a prototype system we developed, the Web Collaborative Searching Assistant (WCSA), which exploits GMUTA and helps distributed group members to work more efficiently. Experimental evaluation of the WCSA indicated that the functionality provided overcomes the above-mentioned problem, improves searching efficiency and adds substantial value to the collaboration.