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US 2009/0024581 A1Published application
Systems and methods for collaborative exploratory search
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsJeremy Garner Pickens, Maribeth Joy Back
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AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsJeremy Garner Pickens, Maribeth Joy Back
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Described is a new framework that combines the best of both exploratory search and social search: Collaborative exploratory search. This system allows a small group of focused information seekers to search through a collection of information in concert. The system provides exploratory feedback not only based on the individual's search behavior, but on the current, active search behavior of one's fellow search allies. The assumption is that the users who have gotten together to search collaboratively have the same information need, but differing perspectives and insights as to how to best express the queries to meet that need. The collaborative exploratory search system will therefore provide tools and algorithmic support to focus, enhance, and augment searcher activities. Searchers can, by interacting with each other through system-mediated information displays, help each other find all relevant information more efficiently and effectively.
A joint search subsystem operable to actively coordinate search activities of a plurality of individuals with a shared information need, wherein the active coordinating comprises causing search activities of a first one of the plurality of individuals to actively affect a second set of information provided to a second one of the plurality of individuals, and causing search activities of the second one of the plurality of individuals to actively affect a first set of information provided to the first one of the plurality of individuals.
A collaborative search method comprising actively coordinating search activities of a plurality of individuals with a shared information need, wherein the active coordinating comprises causing search activities of a first one of the plurality of individuals to actively affect a second set of information provided to a second one of the plurality of individuals, and causing search activities of the second one of the plurality of individuals to actively affect a first set of information provided to the first one of the plurality of individuals.
A computer readable medium embodying computer-readable instructions implementing a collaborative search method comprising actively coordinating search activities of a plurality of individuals with a shared information need, wherein the active coordinating comprises causing search activities of a first one of the plurality of individuals to actively affect a second set of information provided to a second one of the plurality of individuals, and causing search activities of the second one of the plurality of individuals to actively affect a first set of information provided to the first one of the plurality of individuals.
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