A new book on Collaborative Information Seeking

[Apologies for cross-posting]

We are happy to announce the availability of a new book that might be of 
interest to this community:

*Collaborative Information Seeking*
/Best Practices, New Domains and New Thoughts/
Editors: Preben *Hansen*, Chirag *Shah*, Claus-Peter *Klas*
[Published under Springer CSCW Series]
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319185415

  * Provides a fresh look on collaborative information seeking and
    retrieval research and practices
  * Combines aspects of theories and systems relating to collaborative
    search
  * Discusses best practices and applications of collaborative work in
    information-intensive domains
  * Provides a selection of in-depth chapter to be used in curriculum in
    different disciplines

Compiled by world-class leaders in the field of collaborative 
information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion 
that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working 
in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied 
and supported.

Covering aspects of theories, models, and applications the book is 
divided in three parts:

  * Best Practices and Studies: providing an overview of current
    knowledge and state-of-the-art in the field.
  * New Domains: covers some of the new and exciting opportunities of
    applying CIS
  * New Thoughts: focuses on new research directions by scholars from
    academia and industry from around the world.

/Collaborative Information Seeking/ provides a valuable reference for 
student, teachers, and researchers interested in the area of 
collaborative work, information seeking/retrieval, and human-computer 
interaction.

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*Table of contents*
Collaborative Information Seeking: From ‘What?’ and ‘Why?’ to ‘How?’ and 
‘So What?’
Chirag Shah
Pages 3-16

Studying Collaborative Information Seeking: Experiences with Three Methods
Jette Hyldegård, Morten Hertzum, and Preben Hansen
Pages 17-35

Situating CIS: The Importance of Context in Collaborative Information 
Seeking
Kristine Newman, Simon Knight, Preben Hansen, and Stefanie Elbeshausen
Pages 37-54

Procedures and Collaborative Information Seeking: A Study of Emergency 
Departments
Morten Hertzum and Madhu Reddy
Pages 55-71

Collaborative Information Seeking in the Context of Leisure and Work 
Task Situations: A Comparison of Three Empirical Studies
Stefanie Elbeshausen, Thomas Mandl, and Christa Womser-Hacker
Pages 73-98

Learning Through Collaborative Information Seeking
Simon Knight and Karen Littleton
Pages 101-116

A Proposed CIS Interface Based on the Analysis of Problem-Solving in 
Online Technical Support
Ali A. Albar
Pages 117-137

Collaboration, Information Seeking, and Technology Use: A Critical 
Examination of Humanities Scholars’ Research Practices
Lisa M. Given and Rebekah Willson
Pages 139-164

A Probability Ranking Principle for Collaborative Search
Thilo Böhm, Claus-Peter Klas, and Matthias Hemmje
Pages 167-191

Affective Dimension in Collaborative Information Seeking
Roberto González-Ibáñez
Pages 193-208

Collaborative Information Seeking Around Big Data
Mark S. Pfaff
Pages 209-226
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-- 
Preben Hansen
Associate Professor, PhD

Research Fellow at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Unit of Interaction Design and Design for Learning
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV)
Stockholm University, SWEDEN

[email protected]


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