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An Attempt to Evaluate Chances and Limitations of Social Information Retrieval

Authors:
Christoph Fuchs
Georg Groh

Keywords: Social search; distributed social information retrieval; information seeking; social networking

Abstract:
We present an approach to evaluate a novel concept for distributed social information retrieval. The concept is based on the idea that users can query private information spaces of socially close people (“friends”), facilitating social interactions that correspond with typical human information sharing behavior to a higher extent. Thereby, we hope to establish more efficient and socially compatible information sharing among peers in social and collaborative networks. We give a short overview on related research from information science, psychology, and economics, explain and motivate our research questions, summarize our early findings, and sketch the setup of our upcoming empirical experiment.

Pages: 60 to 65

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: October 11, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-436-7

Location: St. Julians, Malta

Dates: from October 11, 2015 to October 16, 2015