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Social Navigation and Annotation for Electronic Books

Jae-Kyung Kim, Rosta Farzan, and Peter Brusilovsky 10/30/2008 School of Information Science University of Pittsburgh. Social Navigation and Annotation for Electronic Books. Introduction. Motivated by The Million Books project Million books, all pages scanned, are available online

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Social Navigation and Annotation for Electronic Books

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  1. Jae-Kyung Kim, Rosta Farzan, and Peter Brusilovsky 10/30/2008 School of Information Science University of Pittsburgh Social Navigation and Annotationfor Electronic Books BooksOnline'08

  2. Introduction • Motivated by The Million Books project • Million books, all pages scanned, are available online • What we can do with Million Books? • Anytime, anywhere access • Federated search • Anything else? • Can we create a user experience, which takes an advantage from the unique digital nature of the content? BooksOnline'08

  3. Our Approach • Inspired by two research streams • Annotation and active reading • Social navigation • Collaborative annotation • Spatial shared annotations, which opens a way to discussions and collaboration • Social group-level navigation support • Guiding users to annotations of others • Guided users to pages annotated by the community BooksOnline'08

  4. Spatial Annotation Interface • A Spatial Annotation Interface for Electronic Textbooks build with Million Books approach • Staking a space • Commenting BooksOnline'08

  5. Page-level Navigation Support • Visual Cues - annotation background and border • Background Style • Background filling Ownership • Background colorOwner’s attitude • Border style • Border color Positiveness • Border thickness# of comments • Border strokePublic or personal BooksOnline'08

  6. Global Navigation Support • Guiding users to most read and most annotatedpages • Group-level socialwisdom • Map Navigation • Cell Navigation • Page/Annotation Navigation BooksOnline'08

  7. Encouraging Annotation • Annotation-based Social Navigation Support • Easy way for students to go back to resources • Annotated document is visible on all three levels • Distinguish a document with a praised annotation • Group level SNS makes individual annotations visible to the whole group • My Annotations • Let users view all annotations at a glance • Filtering by book, date, most visited or praised, keyword, etc BooksOnline'08

  8. My Annotations BooksOnline'08

  9. Summary • What we can do with Million Books? • Spatial annotations and social navigationfor scanned digital textbooks • Treating annotation as community wisdom, encouraging annotations • Used for 2 semesters in a college course • The number of annotations increased dramatically BooksOnline'08

  10. Thank You! BooksOnline'08

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