Tracking epistemic beliefs and sensemaking in collaborative information retrieval

Knight, Simon; Buckingham Shum, Simon and Littleton, Karen (2013). Tracking epistemic beliefs and sensemaking in collaborative information retrieval. In: Collaborative Information Seeking Workshop 2013 (CIS'13): Consolidating the Past, Creating the future, co-located with the 16th ACM Conference on Computer Support Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2013), 24 Feb 2013, San Antonio, Texas.

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Abstract

Collaborative information retrieval is an area of increasing interest. However, the wider sensemaking context in which it occurs is understudied. Furthermore, the role of users’ beliefs about the domain they are querying, its structure, stability, complexity, and justifications – their epistemic beliefs – has been little studied in either individual or collaborative IR software development contexts. Here we discuss a tool to combine the knowledge mapping tool Cohere, with reference management capabilities through which the iterative, epistemically germane, potentially (but not necessarily) collaborative IR process may be ‘brought out’ both for sensemaking, and research purposes.

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• Item ORO ID
• 36553
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISBN
• 1-4503-1331-0, 978-1-4503-1331-5
• Keywords
• learning analytics; epistemic beliefs; collaborative information retrieval; information retrieval; sensemaking
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
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• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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• Depositing User
• Simon Knight