Collaborating through real-time VoIP and visual search

This paper describes the importance of allowing human-human collaboration in the information-seeking task by modeling the task using Charnov’s Marginal Gain Theorem. Highlighting areas of potential gain, the paper then describes an application that exploits those areas. The application described takes an existing information seeking tool - SolonEvo - and integrates it with a free point-2-point (P2P) Voice-over-IP (VoIP) tool by defining a set of protocols for message passing and providing an interface between the two applications that implement those protocols. The protocol and application are described.