Aspects of Augmented Social Cognition: Social Information Foraging and Social Search Export

@incollection{citeulike:1943505, abstract = {In this paper, we summarized recent work in modeling how users socially forage and search for information. One way to bridge between different communities of users is to diversify their information sources. This can be done using not only old mechanisms such as email, instant messages, newsgroups and bulletin boards, but also new ones such as wikis, blogs, social tags, etc. How do users work with diverse hints from other foragers? How do interference effects change their strategies? How can we build tools that help users cooperatively search? We seek theories that might help us answer these questions, or at least point us toward the right directions.}, author = {Chi, Ed and Pirolli, Peter and Lam, Shyong}, citeulike-article-id = {1943505}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0_7}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/9x2181253w98ug77}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0_7}, journal = {Online Communities and Social Computing}, keywords = {collaboration, communities, computer, foraging, information, intelligence, of, psychology}, pages = {60--69}, posted-at = {2008-12-05 07:42:24}, priority = {4}, title = {Aspects of Augmented Social Cognition: Social Information Foraging and Social Search}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0_7}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1943505 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1943505 N2 - In this paper, we summarized recent work in modeling how users socially forage and search for information. One way to bridge between different communities of users is to diversify their information sources. This can be done using not only old mechanisms such as email, instant messages, newsgroups and bulletin boards, but also new ones such as wikis, blogs, social tags, etc. How do users work with diverse hints from other foragers? How do interference effects change their strategies? How can we build tools that help users cooperatively search? We seek theories that might help us answer these questions, or at least point us toward the right directions. JF - Online Communities and Social Computing EP - 69 TI - Aspects of Augmented Social Cognition: Social Information Foraging and Social Search SP - 60 KW - collaboration KW - communities KW - computer KW - foraging KW - information KW - intelligence KW - of KW - psychology AU - Chi, Ed AU - Pirolli, Peter AU - Lam, Shyong PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0_7 ER -