Latest Updates
- Tentative workshop schedule posted
- Accepted papers posted on the workshop web site
- Please use the #CIS2010 hashtag when tweeting about the workshop
- Avery Jordan Morris was born on Dec 28th, 2009
- We received 17 position papers
- The CSCW 2010 Collaborative Information Seeking Workshop will take place in Savannah, Georgia, USA, on Feb. 7, 2010.
Call for Participation
Although most digital information-seeking tools are designed for solo use, studies have shown that
groups of many types (e.g., students, families, and knowledge workers) have shared information needs
that are not adequately served by existing technologies. This workshop seeks to bring together
researchers with backgrounds in CSCW, social computing, information retrieval, library sciences,
and HCI to discuss the research challenges associated with the emerging field of collaborative information
seeking.
This workshop will serve as an opportunity to make connections with researchers with diverse
backgrounds, to learn about participants’ works-in-progress, and to brainstorm on topics of mutual
interest, such as developing standardized evaluation tasks for collaborative information seeking
systems and considering how new media such as social networking and microblogging tools can play a
role in collaborative information seeking.
This workshop is the second in a series of workshops designed to explore issues of collaborative
information seeking. The first workshop,
held in conjunction with the JCDL 2008 conference explored a range of system-, user-, and model-centric
topics. Its procedings can also be found online at the arXiv.org site. In addition, we are
in the process of publishing expanded versions of some of the papers in a Special Issue of the Information
Processing&Management journal.
In this workshop we would like to explore the application of traditional CSCW
theories of awareness, coordination, and collaboration to collaborative information seeking. We are
interested in original papers on systems, evaluation, and real-world scenarios. While the exact workshop
structure will depend on the number and subject of position papers, we expect to have a set of very short,
presentations around specific topics, following by more intensive discussion.