Hello All,
As you all know, Dr Meredith Morris will be giving the February 9th TUX meeting. Attached below is an overview of the talk to be given. Anyone willing to meet up or schedule a demo kindly email me by tomorrow afternoon.
Meredith Morris:
Collaborative Web Search: Towards Next-Generation Information-Seeking Experiences
2016-02-09 12:30 at MaRS Auditorium
In this talk, I will give an overview of my research on developing and evaluating novel collaboration technologies in diverse areas of computing such as information retrieval, gesture interaction, accessibility, and education. The talk will particularly focus on collaborative web search — today, web search is largely a solitary experience, with web browsers and search engine sites typically designed to support a single user, working alone. Collaborative tools can result in improved information-seeking outcomes, such as increasing searchers’ coverage of the relevant information space, reducing unnecessary redundant work across searchers, and exposing searchers to new search strategies and syntax. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges associated with supporting collaborative information seeking and present several prototype systems that address these challenges. I will conclude with discussing directions for future research with respect to collaborative search as well as for collaborative technologies more broadly.
Meredith Ringel Morris is a computer scientist conducting research in the area of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), social computing, and information retrieval (IR). Morris’s main research focus is on social and collaborative web search. She wrote the first book on the subject, Collaborative Web Search: Who, What, Where, When, and Why?. Technology Review recognized Dr. Morris’s pioneering work on collaborative web search by naming her one of 2008’s “35
Regards,
Yomna Aly
Graduate Student | TAG Lab, University of Toronto
