Collaborative Information Foraging: An Application to Emergency Response

摘要

My research thesis revolves around the fields of computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, and information and communication technologies. My primary research interest is to understand, model, and support collaborative information foraging in decision-making environments that are especially characterized by time-constraint and changing level of severity. Traditional studies of information seeking or processing (i.e., handling) in such environments have focused on the description of the interaction of individuals and information sources available to them; however, recent research has found that the environment in which the decisions are made have the potential to shape how decision-makers seek and/or handle information in order to make informed decisions.