Editorial -- Part I: Best Practices and Studies -- Collaborative Information Seeking - From ‘What?’ and ‘Why?’ to ‘How?’ and ‘So What?’ -- Studying Collaborative Information Seeking: Experiences with Three Methods -- Situating CIS - The Importance of Context in Collaborative Information Seeking -- Procedures and Collaborative Information Seeking: A Study of Emergency Departments -- Collaborative Information Seeking in the Context of Leisure and Work Task Situations -- Part II: New Domains -- Learning through Collaborative Information Seeking -- A Proposed CIS Interface Based on the Analysis of Problem-Solving in Online Technical Support -- Collaborative Information Use with Technology -- Part III: New Thoughts -- A Probability Ranking Principle for Collaborative Search -- Affective Dimension in Collaborative Information Seeking -- Collaborative Information Seeking Around Big Data.

 Compiled by world- class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. Covering aspects of theories, models, and applications the book is divided in three parts: ·         Best Practices and Studies: providing an overview of current knowledge and state-of-the-art in the field. ·         New Domains: covers some of the new and exciting opportunities of applying CIS ·         New Thoughts: focuses on new research directions by scholars from academia and industry from around the world. Collaborative Information Seeking provides a valuable reference for student, teachers, and researchers interested in the area of collaborative work, information seeking/retrieval, and human-computer interaction.