CoFind: A Browser Plugin for Investigating Co-located Collaborative Web Search
Abstract
Group awareness is a prominent challenge in the field of co-located collaboration in Multi-display Environments (MDE), where several personal and shared devices are operated simultaneously by multi- ple users. With a focus on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) and particularly different levels of information sharing, our overall goal is to investigate aspects that influence this group awareness as well as the general group performance in such MDE. In this work, we present the conceptual foundation and approach of a research tool, called CoFind. Developed as a lightweight web browser plugin, which connects collaborators by sharing information resources, it provides comprehensive data and activity logging in the context of user studies and their evaluation. Based on an initial lab experiment, we also present first insights on the feasibility of our approach and the utility of our developed tool, allowing to plan and carry out further user studies in this challenging research field.
Documents & Materials
- Pre-print of the article
- Prototype application (open source at Github )
Related Publications
@inproceedings{Fuhrmann2020,
author = {Robert Fuhrmann and Anke Lehmann and Annett Mitschick and Ricardo Langner and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {CoFind: A Browser Plugin for Investigating Co-located Collaborative Web Search},
booktitle = {Mensch und Computer 2020 - Tagungsband},
year = {2020},
month = {9},
pages = {425},
numpages = {5},
doi = {10.1145/3404983.3410012},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York},
keywords = {collaborative information seeking, awareness, web search}
}
Related Student Theses
Supporting Collaborative Web Search and Result Exploration in a Shared Display Environment
Malte Krone June 19th, 2020 until November 20th, 2020
Supervision: Anke Lehmann, Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Support and Implications of Group Awareness for Collaborative Web Search
Robert Fuhrmann December 6th, 2019 until May 8th, 2020
Supervision: Anke Lehmann, Ricardo Langner, Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt