Today, Web search is a solitary experience. Web browsers and search engine sites are typically designed to support a single user, working alone. However, collaboration on information-seeking tasks is actually quite commonplace! For example, students work together to complete homework assignments, friends seek information about entertainment opportunities, family members jointly plan vacation travel, and colleagues jointly conduct research for their projects. My research on collaborative search is aimed at facilitating small-group collaboration on search tasks; this webpage contains links to my papers and videos on collaborative search.
I'm co-organizing a workshop on Collaborative Web Search (along with Gene Golovchinsky and Jeremy Pickens) in conjunction with the 2008 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Check out our workshop's web page, and consider submitting your work!
I'm co-chair of the Demos program for CSCW 2008: check out the Call for Demos, and consider submitting your work!
Formative studies on collaborative search
- survey of users' collaborative search practices [ CHI 2008 paper ]
- motivations for supporting collaborative search [ CHI 2007 Exploratory Search & HCI Workshop paper ]
Asynchronous collaboration via persistent representations of search
- S3: a system for storable, shareable search [ Interact 2007 paper ]
- SearchBar: a search-centric web history [ CHI 2008 paper ] [ CHI 2008 video (.mov) ] [ CHI 2007 Exploratory Search & HCI Workshop paper ]
Remote collaboration
- SearchTogether: a system for remote collaboration on web search [ UIST 2007 paper ] [ UIST 2007 video (.wmv) ] [ Free IE Plugin ]
Co-located collaboration
- CoSearch: a system for co-located collaborative web search using a shared computer augmented by multiple mice or mobile phones [ CHI 2008 paper ] [ CHI 2008 video (.mov) ] [ CHI 2008 HCI for International & Community Development Workshop paper ]
- TeamSearch: a system for co-located collaborative search using a tabletop display [ Tabletop 2006 paper ]
Collaborative sensemaking
- thoughts on enhancing collaborative web search through shared sensemaking tools [ CHI 2008 Sensemaking Workshop paper ]