Virtual Worlds as Information Spaces: Supporting Semantic and Social Navigation in a shared 3D Environment

Vosinakis, Spyros; Papadakis, Ioannis

doi:10.1109/vs-games.2011.41

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Exploratory Search: A Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, System Features, and Research Trends

Jiang

2014

Library and Information Sciences

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Humans are explorers by nature. Almost all searches are exploratory to a certain extent. As a result of the subdivision of the information seeking domain, exploratory search has become a new research focus arousing extensive attention. This chapter introduces the concept of exploratory search and illustrates its basic theoretical foundations, clarifying its complex meaning from the aspects of the problem context and the search process. Four different methods of classifying search results are identified based on a survey of existing exploratory search systems, including hierarchical classification, faceted classification, dynamic clustering, and social classification. Their inherent characteristics and practical applications are reviewed in detail, and the visualization support for presenting the classified search results is explored in addition. The development trends of the exploratory search field are predicted according to the social nature of information seeking.

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Exploratory Search: A Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, System Features, and Research Trends

Jiang

2014

Library and Information Sciences

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The Social Component of Information Systems—How Sociability Contributes to Technology Acceptance

Junglas¹,

Goel²,

Abraham³

et al. 2013

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The adoption of information systems is often explained in terms of usefulness and ease of use. Lately, researchers have begun to recognize that a hedonic streak in human beings provides a further contributing factor in the adoption and acceptance of information systems. Embedded in this streak is a broader social aspect that incorporates not only the solitary, individual pleasure one gets from using the system, but also a pleasure that one gets from interacting and socializing with others through the system. This becomes particularly evident in virtual environments that support high levels of interaction with others and with artifacts embedded in an immersive context. By drawing on IS theories of technology acceptance and IS success, and on theories of social interaction from evolutionary psychology, activity theory, situated action, and distributed cognition, we test the construct of sociability and its antecedents in Second Life-a popular virtual environment. Our results support that, in addition to an information and system component, a social component contributes to IS usage.

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Virtual Worlds as Information Spaces: Supporting Semantic and Social Navigation in a shared 3D Environment

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Exploratory Search: A Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, System Features, and Research Trends

Exploratory Search: A Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, System Features, and Research Trends

The Social Component of Information Systems—How Sociability Contributes to Technology Acceptance

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