Studies of search habits reveal that people engage in many search tasks involving
collaboration with others, such as travel planning, organizing social events, or working on a …

In this article we investigate the expressions of collaborative activities within information
seeking and retrieval processes (IS&R). Generally, information seeking and retrieval is …

Though much information behaviour takes place in collaborative settings, information
behaviour processes are commonly perceived and modelled by information scientists as …

The traditional humanistic concept of individuals is as the originators of knowledge and of
the growth of knowledge and human mental powers as processes initiating from the …

An important aspect of collaborative information seeking (CIS) is making sense of the
information found, ie, collaborative sensemaking. We conducted an ethnographic study of …

Since common ground is pivotal to collaboration, this paper proposes to define collaborative
information seeking as the combined activity of information seeking and collaborative …

Much of the existing information seeking literature only considers information seeking when
performed by an individual information seeker. This paper describes a study that explicitly …

Most existing Web search tools work only with individual users and do not help a user
benefit from previous search experiences of others. In this paper, we present the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast research on collaborative
information seeking (CIS) and expertise seeking (EXS) to identify focal themes, blind spots …

Introduction. The aim of this paper is to combine insights of collaborative information
behaviour and information cultures in organizations to bridge different aspects of managing …