Inproceedings,
Social Navigation of Food Recipes
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, page 341--348. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2001)
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365130
Abstract
The term Social Navigation captures every-day behaviour used to find information, people, and places - namely through watching, following, and talking to people. We discuss how to design information spaces to allow for social navigation. We applied our ideas in a recipe recommendation system. In a follow-up user study, subjects state that social navigation adds value to the service: it provides for social affordance, and it helps turning a space into a social place. The study also reveals some unresolved design issues, such as the snowball effect where more and more users follow each other down the wrong path, and privacy issues.
