Social navigation of food recipes

  • Authors:
  • Martin Svensson;Kristina Höök;Jarmo Laaksolahti;Annika Waern

  • Affiliations:
  • HUMLE, SICS, Box 1263, S-164 29 Kista, Sweden;HUMLE, SICS, Box 1263, S-164 29 Kista, Sweden;HUMLE, SICS, Box 1263, S-164 29 Kista, Sweden;HUMLE, SICS, Box 1263, S-164 29 Kista, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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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.