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Designing Information Spaces
This volume provides a thoroughly up-to-date guide to the use of the Social Navigation approach in designing information spaces. The first part focuses on real life systems such as Kalas, GeoNotes and Babble, and examines the rationale for some of the design choices made. The second part takes a detailed look at the underlying principles and ideas
that drive the field. Overall this book aims to provide the reader with a wealth of example systems, concepts and practical ideas to help them get the most out of this important new approach. Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach will mainly be of interest to anyone designing collaborative information spaces or web sites. It will also be useful for anyone studying or researching topics such as HCI, virtual environments, user interfaces and information retrieval.
Contents:
Introduction: Footprints in the Snow.- Part I
Systems and Theories: Social Translucence: Using Minimalist Visualizations of Social Activity to Support Collective Interaction
Collaborative Filtering: Supporting Social Navigation in Large, Crowded Infospaces
Screen Scenery: Learning from Architecture and People's Practices of Navigation in Electronic Environments
Navigating the Virtual Landscape
Experiential Design of Shared Information Spaces
GeoNotes: A Location-Based Information System for Public Spaces
Arcadian Knowledge Spaces
Social Navigation of Food Recipes
Results from the Footprints Project
WebPlaces: Using Intermediaries to Add People to the Web.- Part II
Theories and Principles: Where the Footprints Lead: Tracking Down Other Roles for Social Navigation
Social Connotation of Space
Informatics, Architecture and Language
A Sociological View of Social Navigation
Navigation: Within and Beyond the Metaphor in Interface Design and Evaluation
The Conceptual Structure of Information Space
Information Space Navigation: A Framework.- References.- Index.
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