Melhuish, Jonathan and Beale, Russell (2008) News not noise: socially aware information filtering. In: BCS HCI2008, Liverpool.
| An understanding of how people in social networks consume news media by and about their friends shows that information overload is soon going to be a major problem for many participants. Users dislike manually prioritizing their friendships to help organize this data, and this leads us to develop a new interface to help users to find the news that most interests them by providing a visual representation of social proximity, in which friends most visited and those most likely to be met offline we prioritized. |
| Type of Work: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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| Date: | 2008 (Publication) |
| School/Faculty: | Schools (1998 to 2008) > School of Computer Science |
| Department: | Advanced Interaction Group |
| References: | [1] Brown, J. and Duguid, P. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press, 2000. [2] Dunbar, R. The Tipping Point. Wheeler Publishing, 2003. [3] Ellison, N., Steinfield, C. and Lampe, C., Spatially Bounded Online Social Networks and Social Capital: The Role of Facebook. in Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, (2006). |
| Keywords: | Social networks, Facebook usage, information overload |
| Subjects: | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science BF Psychology |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham |
| Copyright Holders: | Jonathan Melhuish, Russell Beale |
| ID Code: | 504 |
| Refereed: | YES |
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