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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Materializing the query with facet-streams: a hybrid surface for collaborative search on tabletops
We introduce “Facet-Streams”, a hybrid interactive surface for co-located collaborative product search on a tabletop. Facet-Streams combines techniques of information visualiz...
Hans-Christian Jetter, Jens Gerken, Michael Zö...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Algorithmic mediation for collaborative exploratory search
We describe a new approach to information retrieval: algorithmic mediation for intentional, synchronous collaborative exploratory search. Using our system, two or more users with ...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pe...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Enhancing collaborative web search with personalization: groupization, smart splitting, and group hit-highlighting
Collaboration on Web search is common in many domains, such as education and knowledge work; recently, HCI researchers have begun to introduce prototype collaborative search tools...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Steve Bush
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Collaborative Search and User Privacy: How Can They Be Reconciled?
Abstract. Collaborative search engines (CSE) let users pool their resources and share their experiences when seeking information on the web. However, when shared, search terms and ...
Thorben Burghardt, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Böh...

Publication
104views
14 years 4 months ago
Finding My Needle in the Haystack: Effective Personalized Re-ranking of Search Results in Prospector
Abstract. This paper provides an overview of Prospector, a personalized Internet meta-search engine, which utilizes a combination of ontological information, ratings-based models o...
Florian König, Lex van Velsen, Alexandros Par...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Collaborative search and sensemaking of patents
Suresh K. Bhavnani, Gavin Clarkson, Matthew Scholl