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Social Search in the Context of Social Navigation

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2006, 23(2), pp.147~165
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2006.23.2.147
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : May 16, 2006
  • Accepted : June 20, 2006
  • Published : June 30, 2006

Jae-Wook Ahn 1 Peter Brusilovsky 1 Rosta Farzan 1

1University of Pittsburgh

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ABSTRACT

The explosive growth of Web-based educational resources requires a new approach for accessing relevant information effectively. Social searching in the context of social navigation is one of several answers to this problem, in the domain of information retrieval. It provides users with not merely a traditional ranked list, but also with visual hints which can guide users to information provided by their colleagues. A personalized and context-dependent social searching system has been implemented on a platform called KnowledgeSea II, an open-corpus Web-based educational support system with multiple access methods. Validity tests were run on a variety of aspects and results have shown that this is an effective way to help users access relevant, essential information.

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