Partners in life and online search : investigating older couples' collaborative information seeking
Wei, Winter and Munteanu, Cosmin and Halvey, Martin; (2022) Partners in life and online search : investigating older couples' collaborative information seeking. In: CHIIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. CHIIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval . ACM, DEU, pp. 47-55. ISBN 9781450391863 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3498366.3505820)
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Abstract
Older adults frequently collaborate with their spouses in daily tasks and problem solving. Despite information seeking being an important aspect of collaboration, the information seeking behaviour of older adults and in particular couples remains under investigated. To address this gap, in this paper we present a qualitative investigation of older adults’ collaborative information seeking. Through in-depth interviews and demonstrations of real-life search tasks with eleven older couples, we show that older couples frequently engage in collaborative information seeking in daily tasks, interests, and to satisfy curiosity. Our research suggests that collaborative information seeking is a relationship maintenance behaviour among older couples, and that their long term relationships may play a key role in how they communicate, make decisions, and develop divide and conquer strategies by taking on various roles during their collaborative information seeking. We also found that older couples construct shared views toward technology adoption and usage despite their individual differences. We include some reflections on the existing collaborative information systems and how they may adapt to fit older couples’ collaborative information seeking
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Wei, Winter, Munteanu, Cosmin and Halvey, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6387-8679;-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 79096 Dates: DateEvent14 March 2022Published14 March 2022Published Online9 January 2022AcceptedSubjects: Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science
Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer scienceDepartment: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 Jan 2022 10:07 Last modified: 30 Nov 2024 13:53 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/79096