Understanding together: Sensemaking in collaborative information seeking

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 321-330

  Paul, Sharoda A ^a   Reddy, Madhu C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative information seeking; Collaborative sensemaking; Emergency department; Healthcare

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION; COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; COLLABORATIVE SENSEMAKING; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; SENSEMAKING;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION USE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950889814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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