An Attempt to Evaluate Chances and Limitations of Social Information Retrieval

摘要

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.