The document discusses a study that aimed to understand how sensemaking occurs during collaborative web search tasks. It describes the development of a tool called CoSense to enhance sensemaking. An evaluation found that CoSense helped address challenges identified in an earlier formative study by supporting awareness, temporality, trajectories, contributions and handoffs during synchronous and asynchronous search. The study provided insights into designing features to support collaborative sensemaking during web search.

1. CoSense: Enhancing Sensemaking for Collaborative Web Search Sharoda A. Paul Meredith Ringel Morris Apr 8, 2009

2. Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant - Mitchell Kapor

3. Making sense of information found during a Web search task can be daunting

4. During collaborative Web search tasks, making sense of information can be even more complex and challenging “ How does sensemaking occur during collaborative Web search task?”

10. SearchTogether (UIST, 2007) Query history Search session Add comments and ratings to Web pages Chat with collaborators

15. Search strategies view (1)

16. Search strategies view (2)

17. Timeline view

18. Workspace view

19. Chat-centric view

26. CoSense usage during handoff “ The tag clouds and statistics on how many queries had been done, what were the group’s sites, and what is their popularity, helped me immensely …I was able to plan [the search] better using the websites and keywords ” “ The flow of the search was hard to tell [by looking at SearchTogether]. The timeline in CoSense helped because of the information about order of queries. I identified what had already been done ”