TeamSearch: comparing techniques for co-present collaborative search of digital media

Morris, Meredith Ringel; Paepcke, Andreas; Winograd, Terry

doi:10.1109/tabletop.2006.32

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“…Previous work has discussed alternative solutions to general search interfaces. Advances in supporting collaborative search, for example, typically incorporate large displays to increase awareness of the search processes among group members and to facilitate shared interactions [21,31,32,33]. Our work does not focus on collaborative search, but we seek to enable and promote shared search experiences through the use of large displays where visitors can casually browse the library catalog with their friends or family.…”

Section: Designing (Library) Search Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, the canonical OPAC interface is mostly designed for single users. Inspired by previous work on collaborative search [21,31,32,33], we aimed at supporting casual shared search experiences in-situ.…”

Section: Facilitating Shared Search Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As suggested by previous work on co-located, collaborative work [35] and search [21,31,33], presenting search criteria and filters as well as search results on a large display helps group members to equally participate and to maintain a general awareness of the search process. Furthermore, providing interaction techniques that enable the individual and independent control of search criteria and filters facilitates a shared approach to specifying and modifying these, which can, in turn, promote active participation and discussions.…”

Section: Facilitating Shared Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hinrichs

Butscher

Müller

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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OPAC interfaces, still the dominant access point to library catalogs, support systematic search but are problematic for open-ended exploration and generally unpopular with visitors. As a result, libraries start subscribing to simplified search paradigms as exemplified by web-search systems. This is a problem considering that systematic search is a crucial skill in the light of today's abundance of digital information. Inspired by novel approaches to facilitating search, we designed CollectionDiver, an installation for supporting systematic search in public libraries. The CollectionDiver combines tangible and large display direct-touch interaction with a visual representation of search criteria and filters. We conducted an in-situ qualitative study to compare participants' search approaches on the CollectionDiver with those on the OPAC interface. Our findings show that while both systems support a similar search process, the CollectionDiver (1) makes systematic search more accessible, (2) motivates proactive search approaches by (3) adding transparency to the search process, and (4) facilitates shared search experiences. We discuss the CollectionDiver's design concepts to stimulate new ideas toward supporting engaging approaches to systematic search in the library context and beyond.

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Diving in at the Deep End

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Butscher

Müller

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…CoSearch [1] allowed group search to be conducted with a single PC and several mobile devices in parallel. TeamSearch [4] focused on querying tagged image database by combining boolean search tokens. WeSearch [3] and WebSurface [6] both aimed at providing a tabletop environment for conducting efficient collaborative Web search tasks.…”

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Supporting opportunistic search in meetings with tangible tabletop

Kaplan

Mubin

et al. 2012

CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Web searches are often needed in collocated meetings. Many research projects have been conducted for supporting collaborative search in information-seeking meetings, where searches are executed both intentionally and intensively. However, for most common meetings, Web searches may happen randomly with low-intensity. They neither serve as main tasks nor major activities. This kind of search can be referred to as opportunistic search. The area of opportunistic search in meetings has not yet been studied. Our research is based upon this motivation. We propose an augmented tangible tabletop system with a semi-ambient conversation-context-aware surface as well as foldable paper browsers for supporting opportunistic search in collocated meetings. In this paper, we present our design of the system and initial findings.

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“…The TeamSearch system developed by Morris et al (2006) enabled a group of users collaborating around an electronic tabletop to sift through a stack of pictures using collaborative Boolean query formulation. The system enabled users to locate relevant pictures from a stack by placing query tokens on special widgets which corresponded to predefined metadata categories for the images.…”

Section: Synchronous Co-located Collaborative Information Retrievalmentioning

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Combining Relevance Information in a Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval Environment

Foley

Smeaton

Jones

2009

Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access

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Traditionally information retrieval (IR) research has focussed on a single user interaction modality, where a user searches to satisfy an information need. Recent advances in both Web technologies, such as the sociable Web of Web 2.0, and computer hardware, such as tabletop interface devices, have enabled multiple users to collaborate on many computer-related tasks. Due to these advances there is an increasing need to support two or more users searching together at the same time, in order to satisfy a shared information need, which we refer to as Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval. Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval (SCIR) represents a significant paradigmatic shift from traditional IR systems. In order to support an effective SCIR search, new techniques are required to coordinate users’ activities. In this chapter we explore the effectiveness of a sharing of knowledge policy on a collaborating group. Sharing of knowledge refers to the process of passing relevance information across users, if one user finds items of relevance to the search task then the group should benefit in the form of improved ranked lists returned to each searcher.In order to evaluate the proposed techniques the authors simulate two users searching together through an incremental feedback system. The simulation assumes that users decide on an initial query with which to begin the collaborative search and proceed through the search by providing relevance judgments to the system and receiving a new ranked list. In order to populate these simulations we extract data from the interaction logs of various experimental IR systems from previous Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) workshops.

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TeamSearch: comparing techniques for co-present collaborative search of digital media

Cited by 53 publications

References 23 publications

Diving in at the Deep End

Diving in at the Deep End

Supporting opportunistic search in meetings with tangible tabletop

Combining Relevance Information in a Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval Environment

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