CSCW'98 WorkshopReport Collaborative and co-operative information seeking Elizabeth Churchill, Dave Snowdon, Joseph W. Sullivan and Gene Golovchinsky Introduction Collaborative and co-operative aspects of information storage, seeking and retrieval have become a hot topic in recent years e.g. [1, 2, 4]. The acknowledgement that information seeking is a collaborative activity is part of a trend toward foregrounding the social in system design [5]. The goal of this workshop was to discuss current conceptions of collaborative and co-operative information seeking activities, and to identify future research issues in the design and use of digital information spaces and information seeking tools. Our starting point was that information seeking is much more than the transmission of information from a system to a solitary user on the basis of queries issued by that user. Therefore, models of information seeking that underpin system design must move away from thinking of information seeking as single-user problem solving. Rather, such models need to explicitly address social aspects of information seeking activities. Workshop participants and activities Nineteen people attended the workshop, drawn from Europe, the US and Central America. Participants' names are listed at the end of this report. In the next sections we offer a short
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CSCW '98 workshop report: collaborative and co-operative information seeking
Churchill, Elizabeth; Snowdon, Dave; Sullivan, Joseph W.; Golovchinsky, Gene
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, Volume 31 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 1999
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