News not noise: socially aware information filtering

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. Categories and Subject Descriptors J.4 [Computer Applications]: Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: BCSHCI
• Authors: Jonathan Melhuish, Russell Beale
• Keywords: BCSHCI 2008, Human Computer Interaction, Information Overload, Social Networks, Social Proximity