Collaborative epistemic discourse in classroom information-seeking tasks

Collaborative Information Seeking Behavior: Concepts and Theories

Background and Aim: Collaborative information seeking is an interaction among members of a group who purposefully try to access and share joint information. Although collaboration is a key component of information seeking behavior, but most of the studies in this area are focused on individual information seeking behavior and collaborative aspects are considered much less. As a result, there is...

Collaborative Information Seeking

This paper will discuss key aspects of collaborative practice for researchers and professionals, who use or intend to use collaboration in practice or research. It will introduce our understanding of collaboration, then briefly review supporting research, explore how researchers collaborate with teachers and related professionals, and explore how teachers have integrated peer collaboration into...

Developing learning analytics for epistemic commitments in a collaborative information seeking environment

Learning Analytics for Epistemic Commitments in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment

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Structuring collaborative information-seeking dialogues

Conversational approaches to human-computer collaboration have so far mostly been employed for the design of natural language interfaces. We claim, however, that our “conversational interaction model” can also be applied feasibly to graphical and multimodal interactions. The model comprises two interrelated parts: first, the description of local discourse structures and functional interrelation...