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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 thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Munro, Alan J.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Höök, Kristina (Writer on technology design), Benyon, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 1999.
Series:Computer supported cooperative work.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Software engineering.
Multimedia systems.
Telecommunication.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Where the footprints lead: tracking down other roles for social navigation
  • Social connotations of space in the design for virtual communities
  • Informatics, architecture and language
  • Screen scenery: transposing aesthetic principles from real to electronic environments
  • Navigating the virtual landscape
  • Spaces, places, landscapes and views: experiential design of shared information spaces
  • The conceptual structure of information space
  • A contrast between information navigation and social navigation in virtual worlds
  • Understanding representations of space
  • The role of wearables in social navigation
  • Evaluating adaptive navigation support
  • Index.