• DOI:10.1145/1460563.1460641
Corpus ID: 207170599

Towards a model of understanding social search

@article{Evans2008TowardsAM,
  title={Towards a model of understanding social search},
  author={Brynn M. Evans and Ed H. Chi},
  journal={Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work},
  year={2008}
}

• Brynn M. Evans, Ed H. Chi
• Published 2008
• Computer Science
• Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon's Mechanical Turk service suggest that social interactions play an important role throughout the search process. Our main contribution is that we have integrated models from previous work in sensemaking and information seeking behavior to present a canonical social model of user activities before, during, and after… Expand