Name
Abstract | ||
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With the increasing proliferation of chat applications on the web, the old vision of "adding people" to the web is becoming a reality. Along with collaboration tools, more and more sites offer people awareness mechanisms to let the site visitors know about each other. This reflects the dual nature of the web as a place for virtual meetings as well as an information repository. While standalone chat tools became the killer application of the Internet, site-related awareness applications did not quite catch on. In this work, we suggest possible reasons for this phenomenon and propose a new paradigm for awareness and social navigation. We identify three main obstacles to the existing site-related awareness applications: high sensitivity to the "critical mass" requirement, inflexible meeting place granularity and poor visitor visibility. To address these issues, we extend the well-known "document awareness" concept to a more general one that we call "collection awareness", which better reflects the graph structure of the web. We introduce a new tool for high-level awareness and collaboration, called Livemaps, which projects live information onto a web site map. We demonstrate how Livemaps addresses the obstacles we pointed out and describe a user study conducted on a "fan" web site for the "Friends" comedy series, so as to verify whether Livemaps actually improves social awareness. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2002 | 10.1006/ijhc.2001.0513 | Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
document awareness,site visitor,web site,site-related awareness application,high-level awareness,people awareness mechanism,existing site-related awareness application,web site map,social awareness,collection awareness,critical mass | World Wide Web,Comedy,Computer science,Social consciousness,Knowledge management,Information repository,Human–computer interaction,Phenomenon,Spatial contextual awareness,Visitor pattern,The Internet,Social navigation | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
56 | 1 | 1071-5819 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
11 | 0.87 | 20 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doron Cohen | 1 | 163 | 16.38 |
| Michal Jacovi | 2 | 602 | 62.78 |
| Yoëlle S. Maarek | 3 | 361 | 69.41 |
| Vladimir Soroka | 4 | 291 | 27.78 |