Social Navigation of Information Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Footprints in the Snow

   • Alan Munro, Kristina Höök, David Benyon

   Pages 1-14

3. Where the Footprints Lead: Tracking Down Other Roles for Social Navigation

   • Paul Dourish

   Pages 15-34

4. Social Connotations of Space in the Design for Virtual Communities and Social Navigation

   • Andreas Dieberger

   Pages 35-54

5. Informatics, Architecture and Language

   • Matthew Chalmers

   Pages 55-79

6. Information that Counts: A Sociological View of Information Navigation

   • R. H. R. Harper

   Pages 80-89

7. Screen Scenery: Transposing Aesthetic Principles from Real to Electronic Environments

   • Monika Buscher, John Hughes

   Pages 90-111

8. Navigating the Virtual Landscape: Co-ordinating the Shared Use of Space

   • Phillip Jeffrey, Gloria Mark

   Pages 112-131

9. Spaces, Places, Landscapes and Views: Experiential Design of Shared Information Spaces

   • John A. Waterworth

   Pages 132-154

10. The Conceptual Structure of Information Space

    • Paul P. Maglio, Teenie Matlock

    Pages 155-173

11. A Contrast Between Information Navigation and Social Navigation in Virtual Worlds

    • Paul Rankin, Robert Spence

    Pages 174-194

12. Understanding Representations of Space: A Comparison of Visualisation Techniques in Mainstream Cinema and Computer Interfaces

    • Per Persson

    Pages 195-216

13. The Role of Wearables in Social Navigation

    • Odd-Wiking Rahlff, Rolf Kenneth Rolfsen, Jo Herstad

    Pages 217-236

14. Evaluating Adaptive Navigation Support

    • Kristina Höök, Martin Svensson

    Pages 237-249

15. Footsteps from the Garden — Arcadian Knowledge Spaces

    • Andrew McGrath, Alan Munro

    Pages 250-274

16. Back Matter

    Pages 275-277

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Social navigation is a vibrant new field which examines how we navigate information spaces in "real" and "virtual" environments, how we orient and guide ourselves, and how we interact with and use others to find our way in information spaces. This approach brings a new way of thinking about how we design information spaces, emphasising our need to see others, collaborate with them, and follow the trails of their activities in these spaces. Social Navigation of Information Space is the first major work in this field, and includes contributions by many of the originators and key thinkers. It will be of particular interest to researchers and students in areas related to CSCW and human computer interaction. As a thoroughly multi-disciplinary topic, it will also be of interest to researchers in cognitive psychology, social psychology, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, architecture and anthropology.

• design
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• information
• information visualization
• interfaces
• language
• navigation
• visualization

• Department of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

  Alan J. Munro, David Benyon

• Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden

  Kristina Höök

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