Collaborative Search Tools

Hailing from Microsoft Research, Meredith Morris http://research.microsoft.com/~merrie/papers/ presented two prototypes for facilitating collaborated searching — one supporting remote collaboration, another colocated.

Recommender Systems, User-based Perspectives, Recommending Research Papers

Building Document Recommender Systems to Meet User Information Seeking Needs
by Sean McNee, Computing Research Scientist at Attenex Corp.

Issue:
Information Overload – there is a massive amount of information today.

Solution:
Recommender Systems

Additional Issues:

Issue: There is an overload of Research Papers

Issue: Recommendation Systems need to be considered from a User-Centric Perspective

See below for summary. (Note the findings about the suitability of a particular algorithm and about user perspectives on lists of results)