An examination of daily information needs and sharing opportunities

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 679-688

  Dearman, David ^a   Kellar, Melanie ^b   Truong, Khai N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal knowledge; Design considerations; Diary study; Information need; Information sharing

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DIARY STUDY; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION SHARING; INFORMATION SOURCES; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

DESIGN; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 70450276904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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