Jeremy Pickens
Location: (Palo Alto, CA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.fxpal.com/?p=jeremy
Keywords: Information Retrieval (IR), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), (Explicitly) Collaborative Information Seeking, Human-Computer Interaction in Information Retrieval (HCIR), Multimedia Information Retrieval
Posted on: Friday, May 29th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science
Research Interests:
I am interested in the problem of designing algorithms and interfaces to aid small teams to finding information addressing an explicitly-shared information need. The goal is to go beyond known-item and navigational search to support collaborative exploration and knowledge creation. In contrast to recommendation systems, this approach focuses on the implications of assumed rather than inferred shared information needs.
Open issues include the design of information retrieval interfaces that support awareness of team members’ present and past activities, searcher roles and co-ordination scenarios, algorithms that organize and rank the discovered information based on inputs from multiple searchers, and evaluation methods and metrics for assessing the impact of collaborative search. This work fits in the broader area of Information Seeking Support Systems, as described in a recent report to the NSF, available online at http://ils.unc.edu/ISSS/ISSS_final_report.pdf .
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