Understanding and Supporting Sensemaking in Collaborative Web Search
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While there has been some research on sensemaking in individual information seeking, there is little understanding of sensemaking in collaborative information seeking tasks, such as collaborative Web search. We conducted a study of users’ sensemaking in collaborative Web search tasks performed using SearchTogether. Based on findings of this study, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a tool, CoSense, to enhance sensemaking for collaborative search tasks. The results of our evaluation of CoSense provide insight into how people collaboratively make sense of information and what design features can help them.
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