Collaboration is often required for activities that are too complex or difficult to be dealt with
by a single individual. Many situations requiring information-seeking activities also call for …

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 …

Purpose Information seeking is often performed in collaborative contexts. The research into
such collaborative information seeking (CIS) has been proceeding since the 1990s but lacks …

Today's Web browsers provide limited support for rich information-seeking and information-
sharing scenarios. A survey we conducted of 204 knowledge workers at a large technology …

Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which
groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information online …

This article presents a framework for research and development in user interfaces that
support information seeking. The information-seeking process is described, and each of the …

Groups of users often have shared information needs--for example, business colleagues
need to conduct research relating to joint projects and students must work together on group …

Collaborative learning has been widely applied in education, and has been seen as
conducive to student learning. The advent of technology and its applications in education …

The demand of browsing information from general Web pages using a mobile phone is
increasing. However, since the majority of Web pages on the Internet are optimized for …

A global increase in PDA and cell phone ownership and a rise in the use of wireless
services have caused mobile browsing to become an important means of Internet access …