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The social and collaborative aspects of information seeking described in the previous chapters are often hard to separate. This chapter presents the notion of social and collaborative information seeking (SCIS ) that attempts to study both of those aspects at the same time. There are two main reasons to bring the areas of social information seeking (SIS ) and collaborative information seeking (CIS ) together: it is often difficult to separate a project’s social and collaborative dimensions, and their combination could greatly improve our ability to support human information behavior. This chapter will first present a brief synthesis of SIS and CIS work. Next, it will consider SCIS as a new field that integrates and extends SIS and CIS . The chapter will explore the many benefits of this approach and finally present a research agenda that outlines the opportunities and challenges unique to SCIS .
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Shah, C. (2017). Social and Collaborative Information Seeking. In: Social Information Seeking. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56756-3_7
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