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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding together: sensemaking in collaborative information seeking
An important aspect of collaborative information seeking (CIS) is making sense of the information found, i.e., collaborative sensemaking. We conducted an ethnographic study of the...
Sharoda A. Paul, Madhu C. Reddy
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Social-Technical Tools for Collaborative Sensemaking and Sketching
Sensemaking is a deliberate effort to understand events or information, and a sketch is an exploratory graphic composition of a concept or observation. Within the architecture doma...
James Sullivan, Meredith Banasiak, Christopher Mes...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Information and communication tools as aids to collaborative sensemaking
Collaborative sensemaking occurs when multiple actors engage in understanding an unfamiliar, information-rich environment. We present preliminary results from a field study of the...
Sharoda A. Paul, Madhu C. Reddy, Christopher DeFli...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Towards a model of understanding social search
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...
Brynn M. Evans, Ed H. Chi
GROUP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A survey of collaborative information seeking practices of academic researchers
Information seeking and management practices are an integral aspect of people’s daily work. However, we still have little understanding of collaboration in the information seeki...
Patricia Ruma Spence, Madhu C. Reddy, Richard Hall