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Towards a model of understanding social search

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Brynn M. Evans,

Ed H. ChiAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 485 - 494

https://doi.org/10.1145/1460563.1460641

Published: 08 November 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon's Mechanical Turk service suggest that social interactions play an important role throughout the search process. Our main contribution is that we have integrated models from previous work in sensemaking and information seeking behavior to present a canonical social model of user activities before, during, and after search, suggesting where in the search process both explicitly and implicitly shared information may be valuable to individual searchers.

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Index Terms

Towards a model of understanding social search
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Information retrieval query processing

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