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2015-09-29 |
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Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) is common in many professional contexts.
This chapter discusses CIS from four different perspectives – education,
healthcare, science research and patent research. We first introduce the CIS context,
focusing on Evans and Chi’s proposed model of social search. We highlight the ways
contextual factors relate to the search process, in particular noting the role of
communication in CIS processes. The four example professional contexts are discussed
with reference to the ‘medium’ of collaboration, the ways CIS is conducted, the
tools used and physical setting of CIS, and the ‘context’ of CIS, the purposes
for which an instance of CIS occurs in that discipline. We suggest that
these contextual factors can be aligned with, but are additional to, the existing
Evans and Chi model of social search, and that their addition in a ‘pre- and post-model’
extension could provide a shared framework for researching contextual features of
CIS. In highlighting commonalities and contrasts across the disciplinary contexts
we suggest that a developed model, and further research, is needed to understand
the relationship between motivations in these different disciplines and the
evaluation of CIS episodes, and the role of processes, particularly communication,
in those episodes. In order to evaluate CIS in different disciplines future
research should focus on the between, and within discipline differences
in the purposes of CIS. Characteristics of success in different disciplinary
contexts may relate both to the consideration of the collaborative context,
and the information need; developing deeper understanding of this point. |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/353233 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/353252 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/353999 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/354004 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/354005 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/354006 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/354007 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/354008 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/355988 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/355989 |
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Newman, Kristine; Knight, Simon ; Hansen, Preben and Elbeshausen, Stefanie (2015).
Situating CIS – The importance of Context in Collaborative Information Seeking. In:
Hansen, Preben; Shah, Chirag and Klas, Claus-Peter eds. Collaborative Information
Seeking: Best practices, New Domains, New Thoughts. Computer Supported Cooperative
Work. Springer International Publishing, pp. 37–54. |
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Newman, Kristine; Knight, Simon ; Hansen, Preben and Elbeshausen, Stefanie (2015).
Situating CIS – The importance of Context in Collaborative Information Seeking. In:
Hansen, Preben; Shah, Chirag and Klas, Claus-Peter eds. Collaborative Information
Seeking: Best practices, New Domains, New Thoughts. Computer Supported Cooperative
Work. Springer International Publishing, pp. 37–54. |
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ext-6c8b7c40a5167b142d7fb1354cd46407 |
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Situating CIS – The importance of Context in Collaborative Information Seeking |
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