[Asis-l] Report from workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking (SCIS)

[Chirag Shah]

[Apologies for duplicate messages.] 

We are happy to share the report from the workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking (SCIS), held at Rutgers University on May 14-15, 2015. The workshop was sponsored by DIMACS - an NSF-funded center at Rutgers.

The workshop brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds who are experts and innovators in studying collaborative search systems, with a goal of outlining a “research roadmap” of challenges and opportunities as an outcome of the workshop. For one and a half days, these scholars presented, discussed, debated, and synthesized ideas related to social and collaborative information seeking theories and applications.

The workshop report can be found at http://infoseeking.org/scis/?q=filebrowser/download/96 <http://infoseeking.org/scis/?q=filebrowser/download/96>. It details the ideas discussed, issues brought forward, and applications envisioned. More importantly, it provides a ready reference to important advances and future directions in the domains of collaborative and social search, collaborative information seeking behavior, social information seeking, and their applications to areas such as healthcare, e-governance, and education.

The workshop website is http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/SCIS/ <http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/SCIS/>, which hosts abstracts and slides of the invited talks from the workshop.

We hope these resources provide important and useful references to those interested in the rapidly evolving area of SCIS and related domains. Feel free to share this information with those who might benefit from them.


Sincerely,
Chirag Shah, Rutgers University
Rob Capra, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Preben Hansen, Stockholm University


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Chirag Shah, PhD
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Rutgers University
4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901
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