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Affective Dimension in Collaborative Information Seeking

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Collaborative Information Seeking

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This chapter aims to reflect about the importance and challenges of research on the affective dimension in collaborative information seeking (CIS). This is achieved through three major parts. First, an overview of the relevance of the affective dimension is provided. Second, research on the affective dimension in individual information seeking in general, and CIS in particular is discussed. Finally, research approaches, challenges, and ethical aspects in this type of studies are discussed. This chapter hopes to encourage researchers to formulate new questions, hypotheses, and more importantly further investigate this interesting topic.

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  1. Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Roberto González-Ibáñez

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  1. Stockholm University, Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

    Preben Hansen

  2. Rutgers University, School of Communication & Information, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

    Chirag Shah

  3. GESIS - Leibniz-Institut for Social Sciences, Department of Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

    Claus-Peter Klas

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González-Ibáñez, R. (2015). Affective Dimension in Collaborative Information Seeking. In: Hansen, P., Shah, C., Klas, CP. (eds) Collaborative Information Seeking. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18988-8_10

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