Understanding Collaborative Sensemaking Behaviour in Collaborative Information Seeking: An Exploratory Study
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چکیده
Collaborative information seeking (CIS) has become common and occurs when people search the Web together to pursue a complex and exploratory task, such as scientific research, holiday planning, etc. Sensemaking activities are highly involved in these tasks but we have limited understanding of collaborative sensemaking behaviour in the CIS context. In this paper, we describe an exploratory study that aims to investigate the collaborative sensemaking behaviour of online searchers and the difficulties they faced in the CIS process. We present the findings of our study in terms of the activities, strategies and difficulties in collaborative sensemaking process.
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