The Impact of Group Size on Collaborative Search

Collaborative search, where the activities of multiple users are combined to satisfy their information need, is an effective tool to to handle complex search tasks. People search collaboratively in groups of varying sizes. Various collaborative search systems have been studied in previous work, but they only investigate a fixed group size....

Evaluating Collaborative Search for a Learning-Oriented Search Task

Web search has become a convenient option for seeking information related to learning, therefore understanding how to facilitate human learning through a search engine has the potential to improve the quality of informal education and online learning. One less understood aspect of search as learning is the effect of collaboration in a search...