Supporting social navigation on the World Wide Web
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: innovative applications of the World Wide Web
The intellectual foundation of information organization
The intellectual foundation of information organization
Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of reading for pleasure
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Social navigation of food recipes
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Recommender Systems Research: A Connection-Centric Survey
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Exploratory search: from finding to understanding
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
Cross-Evaluation: A new model for information system evaluation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A model for quantitative evaluation of an end-to-end question-answering system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Management Information Systems
Editorial: Evaluating exploratory search systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Model-driven formative evaluation of exploratory search: A study under a sensemaking framework
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Influences of customer preference development on the effectiveness of recommendation strategies
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Online customers' cognitive differences and their impact on the success of recommendation agents
Information and Management
Link Creation and Profile Alignment in the aNobii Social Network
SOCIALCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing
A collaborative filtering similarity measure based on singularities
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Social book search: comparing topical relevance judgements and book suggestions for evaluation
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Examining the generalizability of the User Engagement Scale (UES) in exploratory search
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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A user study of aNobii was conducted with an aim to exploring possible criteria for evaluating social navigational tools. A set of measures designed to capture various aspects of the benefits provided by the tools was proposed. To test the applicability of these measures, a within-subject experimental design was adopted where fifty regular aNobii users searched alternately with three book-finding tools: browsing ''friends' bookshelves'', ''similar bookshelves'', and ''books by known authors''. Other than the self-report user experience and search result measures, the ''choice set'' model was used as a novel framework for navigational effectiveness. Further analyses were conducted to explore whether three aspects of reader preference, ''preference insight'', ''preference diversity'', and ''reading involvement'' might influence the performance of the tools. Some major findings are as follows. While the author browsing function was shown to be most efficient, browsing friends' bookshelves was shown to generate more interesting and informative browsing experiences. Three evaluative dimensions were derived from our study: search experience, search efficiency, and result quality. The disagreement of these measures shows a need for a multi-faceted evaluative framework for these exploration-based navigational tools. Furthermore, interaction effects on performance were found between users' preference characteristics and tools. While users with high preference insight relied more heavily on author browsing to obtain more accurate results, highly involved readers tended percentage wise to examine and select more titles when browsing friends' bookshelves.