[Asis-l] CFP: Collaborative Information Behavior workshop at ACM GROUP 2009

[Madhu Reddy]

[apologies for cross-postings]

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

We are organizing a workshop on Collaborative Information Behavior at
GROUP 2009 (http://www.group2009conference.com/) which will take place
May 10th-13th in Sanibel Island, Florida. If this area is of interest to
you, please consider submitting a 2-4 page position paper by Mar 25th,
2009. 

 

Organizers:

Madhu Reddy, Penn State University

Sharoda A. Paul, Penn State University

Jim Jansen, Penn State University

Jonathan Foster, University of Sheffield 

Michael Twidale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Overview:

People frequently engage in collaborative information seeking tasks in
their professional and personal lives. For instance, family members
might collaboratively search the Web for information when buying a new
car or healthcare providers in a hospital might collaboratively find and
use information needed to diagnose and treat patients. Collaborative
Information Behavior (CIB) can be defined as "activities that a group or
team of people undertakes to identify and resolve a shared information
need". CIB encompasses a range of activities such as collaborative
information seeking, retrieval, sharing, sensemaking, and use. It can
occur on different scales, ranging from small groups in organizations
and classrooms to social search and sensemaking on the Internet.

 

CIB, both conceptually and technically, is a new and emerging field.
Consequently, there are a number of challenges that still need to be
addressed. These include fieldwork challenges of studying collaborative
information seeking and use "in the wild", finding appropriate methods
for studying CIB, the dearth of CIB models, and challenges with
developing collaborative information retrieval tools. 

 

In this workshop, we are interested in bringing together researchers
(from both academia and industry) working on the wide range of
conceptual and technical issues in the area of CIB to address these
challenges.

 

Workshop themes:

 

Current research in CIB

  * Settings and tasks in which collaborative information behavior takes
place

  * Levels of CIB - from small groups to social search and sensemaking
on the Internet

  * Fieldwork findngs about how and why people collaborate to find,
share, and make sense of information

  * Methodologies for conducting research to examine CIB

  * Models of CIB

  * New UIs, tools, and algorithms to support collaborative search and
information retrieval

  * Evaluation techniques for collaborative information retrieval tools

 

Challenges in fieldwork, model development, system design and evaluation

  * Approriate methods for examining CIB in the field

  * Development of surveys to examine CIB

  * Development of CIB models

 

Research agenda for the field of CIB

  * Important research questions which remain to be answered

  * Effective research methodologies for studying CIB

  * Trends in CIB research and where research will be headed in the near
future 

 

Important dates:

 

  Mar 25th, 2009: Position papers due

  Mar 28th, 2009: Notification of acceptance

  Apr 5th, 2009: Early registration deadline for GROUP 2009

  May 10th, 2009: Workshop

 

Submissions:

Workshop position papers should be two to four pages long in ACM format.
Please email .pdf or .doc versions to spaul at ist.psu.edu by 5:00pm PST on
Mar 25th, 2009.

 

For further information about the workshop, including the proposed
agenda, see the workshop website at
http://www.personal.psu.edu/sap246/CIBWorkshop.html

 

Please pass on this CFP to colleagues who might be interested.

 

Thanks and looking forward to your submission!

 

--Madhu

 

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