At a time of increased social usage of net and collaborative applications, a robust and
detailed theory of social presence could contribute to our understanding of social behavior …

Design-oriented research practices create opportunities for constructing knowledge that is
more abstracted than particular instances, without aspiring to be at the scope of generalized …

This chapter has three purposes: to illuminate the ways in which people discover, shape, or
create information as part of their lives and work; to consider how the resources and rules of …

Electronic collaborative learning environments for learning and working are in vogue.
Designers design them according to their own constructivist interpretations of what …

Defining and measuring social presence: Contribution to the Networked Minds Theory and
Measure Page 1 1 Defining and measuring social presence: Contribution to the Networked …

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …

Abstract The Internet and World Wide Web have brought us into a world of endless
possibilities: interactive Web sites to experience, music to listen to, conversations to …

The last five years have seen a major paradigm shift in the role of human factors in product
design. Previously this was seen as pertaining almost exclusively to product usability, but …

We discuss the important, but greatly under-researched, topic of the social aspects of human
wayfinding during navigation. Wayfinding represents the planning and decision-making …

Pervasive Information Architecture explains the 'why'and 'how'of pervasive information
architecture (IA) through detailed examples and real-world stories. It offers insights about …