The Effects of System Initiative during Conversational Collaborative Search

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Avula, Sandeep, Choi, Bogeum, Arguello, Jaime
• Format: Paper Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 20.02.2022
• Subjects: Collaboration; Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Science - Information Retrieval; Multiagent systems; Searching; Verbal communication

Our research in this paper lies at the intersection of collaborative and conversational search. We report on a Wizard of Oz lab study in which 27 pairs of participants collaborated on search tasks over the Slack messaging platform. To complete tasks, pairs of collaborators interacted with a so-calle...