...Lu Zhang; Chang Liu; Pengyi Zhang Purpose This study aims to explore the characteristics of collaborative information searching by comparing the differences in search experience and interaction between collaborative search mode and individual search mode and by analyzing the communication content...

... project to succeed: Evaluation Tasks Group work Information seeking Collaborative search Fact-finding the participants of a team possess different backgrounds and expertise; the participants have opportunities to explore information on their own without being influenced by other...

...Chris Leeder; Chirag Shah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the collaborative information seeking (CIS) behaviors of students conducting authentic group work projects, and the features of a collaborative search system that are most useful to these students...

... that collaborative search teams resulted in more queries, more diverse query terms, and more varied query results compared to those working individually. The study results indicated that the cognitive load imposed on the participants did not differ between a collaborative search and an individual search except...

... seeking Collaborative search Exploratory search Collaboration is considered a useful trait in many situations (Denning, 2007 ; Denning and Yaholkovsky, 2008). These situations often involve working with information. Examples include patent searching (Hansen and Järvelin, 2005), knowledge work...