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Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach

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Editors:
  1. Kristina Höök

    1. Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden

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  2. David Benyon

    1. Department of Computing, Napier University, Canal Court, Edinburgh, UK

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  3. Alan J. Munro

    1. Department of Computer Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK

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  • This is the only major work covering this important topic
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Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Editors’ Introduction: Footprints in the Snow

    1. Editors’ Introduction: Footprints in the Snow

      • Kristina Höök, David Benyon, Alan Munro
      Pages 1-13

  3. Systems and Theories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Social Translucence: Using Minimalist Visualisations of Social Activity to Support Collective Interaction

      • Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg
      Pages 17-41

    3. Collaborative Filtering: Supporting Social Navigation in Large, Crowded Infospaces

      • Joseph A. Konstan, John Riedl
      Pages 43-82

    4. Screen Scenery: Learning From Architecture and People’s Practices of Navigation in Electronic Environments

      • Monika Buscher, John Hughes
      Pages 83-103

    5. Navigating the Virtual Landscape: Coordinating the Shared Use of Space

      • Phillip Jeffrey, Gloria Mark
      Pages 105-124

    6. Experiential Design of Shared Information Spaces

      • John A. Waterworth, Andreas Lund, David Modjeska
      Pages 125-149

    7. GeoNotes: A Location-Based Information System for Public Spaces

      • Per Persson, Fredrik Espinoza, Petra Fagerberg, Anna Sandin, Rickard Cöster
      Pages 151-173

    8. Footsteps from the Garden: Arcadian Knowledge Spaces

      • Andrew McGrath, Alan Munro
      Pages 175-200

    9. Social Navigation of Food Recipes: Designing Kalas

      • Martin Svensson, Kristina Höök
      Pages 201-222

    10. Results from the Footprints Project

      • Alan Wexelblat
      Pages 223-248

    11. Web Places: Using Intermediaries to Add People to the Web

      • Paul P. Maglio, Rob Barrett, Stephen Farrell
      Pages 249-269
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That's a look at an array of social proxies. The purpose was to make it clear that the concept of social proxy is quite general. Social proxies can be designed to support a wide range of on-line interactions, whether they involve conversation or not. They may be synchronous or asynchronous, and they may be associated with activities which are an end in them­ selves (e. g. auctions), or activities which are simply a means to an end (e. g. waiting in queues). We believe that by providing a shared represen­ tation of the activity in which participants are involved, social proxies can help create shared expectations, shared experiences, and can serve as a resource which participants can use to structure their individual and collective interactions. That is, at least, our claim. However, it is important to note that, except for the first, the proxies described so far are concept pieces, meaning that they haven't been implemented and deployed to real situations. Now, however, we will turn to an implemented system, and look at a real example. 1. 4 Experience: The Babble System In the previous section we introduced the concept of social proxies and discussed examples illustrating the wide range of situations to which social proxies can be applied. In this section, we focus on our experience in designing, implementing and studying a social proxy in the context of an on-line system called Babble.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden

    Kristina Höök

  • Department of Computing, Napier University, Canal Court, Edinburgh, UK

    David Benyon

  • Department of Computer Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK

    Alan J. Munro

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