Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing.

Davenport, Elisabeth; Connolly, Reuben; Spence, Robert; Buckner, Kathy; Whyte, Angus; Barr, Kirsty

Abstract

The authors describe the problem of 'community myopia': a lack of awareness of people and resources that might assist members of a community to carry out tasks. They present a prototype social browser in two stages: a basic computer based social network diagram using off-the-shelf application software and an advanced social browser using Netmap, a proprietary analytic and visualization software tool. Tradeoffs between functional capability and ease and pleasure in use are discussed

• Conference Name: CHI EA '99
• Start Date: May 15, 1999
• End Date: May 20, 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Deposit Date: May 27, 2010
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 35-36
• Book Title: CHI EA '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 1581131585
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632742
• Keywords: community myopia; community; social browsing; networking; Netmap
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3320
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/632716.632742