Making interactions visible: Tools for social browsing
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Date
1999
Authors
Davenport, E.
Connolly, R.
Spence, R.
Buckner, K.
Whyte, A.
Barr, K.
Citation
Davenport, E., Connolly, R., Spence, R., Buckner, K., Whyte, A. and Barr, K. (1999) ‘Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing’, in CHI ’99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (CHI EA ’99), pp. 35–36. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632742.
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