Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach by Alan Munro

Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach by Alan Munro

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.

Benyon, David: - David Benyon is Professor of Human-Computer Systems and head of the Center for interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, UK. He obtained an MSc in Computing and Cognition and completed his Ph.D. in 1993 on the subject of Intelligent User Interfaces. Prof. Benyon has written or edited 11 books on Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design and published over 150 academic papers including 30 journal papers. Over the last 7 years he has obtained significant funding to support his research including six major EC grants. Prof. Benyon is a member of several professional societies and is on the editorial board for the journals Knowledge-Based Systems and International Journal of People-Oriented Programming. He has authored a major textbook in the area entitled Designing Interactive Systems (the 3rd edition was published in 2013). One of the key books published by Prof. Benyon is Designing with Blends (with Manuel Imaz, MIT Press, 2007) which has helped to introduce conceptual blending to the interaction design community.

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ISBN 13	9781852336615
ISBN 10	1852336617
Title	Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach
Author	Alan Munro
Series	Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer London Ltd
Year published	2002-12-11
Number of pages	456
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