Designing information spaces: the social navigation approach

TLDR: This book discusses the design for Virtual Communities and Social Navigation in Electronic Environments, and the role of space in the design of these communities and social navigation.

Abstract: Editors' Introduction: Footprints in the Snow.- I Systems and Theories.- 1 Social Translucence: Using Minimalist Visualisations of Social Activity to Support Collective Interaction.- 2 Collaborative Filtering: Supporting Social Navigation in Large, Crowded Infospaces.- 3 Screen Scenery: Learning from Architecture and People's Practices of Navigation in Electronic Environments.- 4 Navigating the Virtual Landscape: Coordinating the Shared Use of Space.- 5 Experiential Design of Shared Information Spaces.- 6 GeoNotes: A Location-based Information System for Public Spaces.- 7 Footsteps from the Garden: Arcadian Knowledge Spaces.- 8 Social Navigation of Food Recipes: Designing Kalas.- 9 Results from the Footprints Project.- 10 WebPlaces: Using Intermediaries to Add People to the Web.- II Theories and Principles.- 11 Where the Footprints Lead: Tracking Down Other Roles for Social Navigation.- 12 Social Connotations of Space in the Design for Virtual Communities and Social Navigation.- 13 Informatics, Architecture and Language.- 14 Information that Counts: A Sociological View of Social Navigation.- 15 Navigation: Within and Beyond the Metaphor in Interface Design and Evaluation.- 16 The Conceptual Structure of Information Space.- 17 Information Space Navigation: A Framework.- References.