How can we better support users with non-uniform information access in collaborative information retrieval?

Nyi Nyi Htun, Martin Halvey, Lynne Baillie

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Abstract

The majority of research in Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR) has assumed that collaborating team members have uniform information access. However, practice and research has shown that there may not always be uniform information access among team members, e.g. in healthcare, government, etc. To the best of our knowledge, there has not been a controlled user evaluation to measure the impact of non-uniform information access on CIR outcomes. To address this shortcoming, we conducted a controlled user evaluation using 2 non-uniform access scenarios (document removal and term blacklisting) and 1 full (uniform) access scenario. Following this, a design interview was undertaken to provide interface design suggestions. Evaluation results showed that neither of the 2 non-uniform access scenarios had a significant negative impact on collaborative and individual search outcomes. Design interview results suggested that awareness of team’s query history and intersecting viewed/judged documents could potentially help users share their expertise without disclosing sensitive information. We also provide important design recommendations to better support users with non-uniform information access in CIR.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval 2017
Place of PublicationNew York
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2017
EventACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval 2017 - Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway
Duration: 7 Mar 201711 Mar 2017
http://sigir.org/chiir2017/
http://sigir.org/chiir2017/

Conference

ConferenceACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval 2017
Abbreviated titleCHIIR 2017
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityOslo
Period7/03/1711/03/17
Internet address

Keywords

  • collaborative information retrieval
  • multi-level collaboration
  • information access
  • interface design
  • non-uniform access
  • HCI
  • CIR

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