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First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '06)
pp. 97-104
TeamSearch: Comparing Techniques for Co-Present Collaborative Search of Digital Media
Meredith Ringel Morris, Stanford University
Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University
Terry Winograd, Stanford University
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Interactive tables can enhance small-group colocated
collaborative work in many domains. One
application enabled by this new technology is copresent,
collaborative search for digital content. For
example, a group of students could sit around an
interactive table and search for digital images to use in
a report. We have developed TeamSearch, an
application that enables this type of activity by
supporting group specification of Boolean-style
queries. We explore whether TeamSearch should
consider all group members’ activities as contributing
to a single query or should interpret them as separate,
parallel search requests. The results reveal that both
strategies are similarly efficient, but that collective
query formation has advantages in terms of enhancing
group collaboration and awareness, allowing users to
bootstrap query-specification skills, and personal
preference. This suggests that team-centric UIs may
offer benefits beyond the "staples" of efficiency and
result quality that are usually considered when
designing search interfaces.
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Citation:
Meredith Ringel Morris, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd,
"TeamSearch: Comparing Techniques for Co-Present Collaborative Search of Digital Media,"
tabletop,
pp. 97-104,
First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '06),
2006
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