Comments on: Social Navigation

By: Using ’social navigation’ and ‘participatory surveillance’ terms for co-creation and joint action « Taming the spaces

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:02:35 +0000

[...] Dourish and Matthew Chalmers distinguish between semantic navigation and social navigation: [semantic navigation offers] the ability to [...]

By: David Huynh’s Freebase Parallax | The Noisy Channel

David Huynh’s Freebase Parallax | The Noisy Channel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:14:38 +0000

[...] I encourage you to check out David’s latest project: Freebase Parallax. In it, he does something I’ve never seen outside Endeca (excepting David’s earlier work on a Nested Faceted Browser) he allows you to navigate using the facets of multiple entity types, joining between sets of entities through their relationships. At Endeca, we call this “record relationship navigation”–we presented it at HCIR ‘07, showing an how it can enable social navigation. [...]

By: Buzz for Buzzillions | The Noisy Channel

Buzz for Buzzillions | The Noisy Channel — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:23:02 +0000

[...] Journal for their reviews and recommendation site, Buzzillions. They’re at the forefront of social navigation, something I think we’ll see increasingly in online retail and [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:33:00 +0000

There's been work on various aspects of this problem. Here are some starting points to look into them.

Expertise Search: Krisztian Balog's home page.

Incentive Networks: this paper by Jon Kleinberg and Prabhakar Raghavan.

Social Network Visualization: Jeffrey Heer's vizster project.

By: John B. Lee

John B. Lee — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:55:00 +0000

Interesting. I hadn’t heard the term “social navigation” before, but the first thing that popped into my mind was the “social search” problem that people in various fields (Sociology, Physics, Complexity, Comp Sci.) have been working on.

Something I’d like to see someone pick up is the notion of using social networks to route queries to individuals that can answer them. Most of the work I’ve seen suggests that people can do this, but there is still an incentive problem (Why should I forward this query on?) as well as interface problem (How do I pick who to forward this on to?). That’s neither here nor there, I just thought it was interesting that the term brought to mind a different concept.