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We propose a search user interface that is especially designed to make individual contributions to a collaborative search task visible and traceable. The main goal is to support awareness, understanding, and sensemaking within a group working together on the same task. The support is achieved by visualizing the information seeking activities of the user group with an interactive two-dimensional Search Map. The users share the same Search Map and can actively collaborate and evolve their search topic together. The Search Map serves as a common ground and enables each user to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the domain in question by taking advantage of the shared view of the community.
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Stange, D., Nürnberger, A. (2014). Search Maps: Enhancing Traceability and Overview in Collaborative Information Seeking. In: de Rijke, M., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_91
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