Designing social navigation for a virtual community of practice

Wen Xu, C.J. Kreijns, J. Hu

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    Abstract

    Social navigation in a community of practice (CoP) is an approach of locating information through increased social awareness. Designing support for social navigation requires precise knowledge about the users’ needs and wishes so as to meet user participatory design methodology. User requirement definition on social navigation is, however, difficult to elicit. On the one hand, without the context of the CoP, it is hard to collect the user requirements on navigation, especially when the concept of virtual community is new to the target user group. On the other hand, to set up such a virtual community, preliminary studies on social navigation is however necessary. This paper presents the experiences how we dealt with such a chicken and egg problem. Different approaches were used: performing a theoretical study, administering an online questionnaire, observing on an existing virtual society, analyzing similar systems, prototyping, and conducting an expert walk-through.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTechnologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment
    EditorsZ. Pan, R. Aylett, H. Diener, X. Jin, S. Göbel, L. Li
    Place of PublicationBerlin
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages27-38
    ISBN (Print)3-540-33423-8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006
    Eventconference; First International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006 -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2006 → …

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume3942
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743

    Conference

    Conferenceconference; First International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006
    Period1/01/06 → …
    OtherFirst International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006

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