Aigaion: RACTI / RU1 Technical Report Series (Web Based)

[RACTI-RU1-2008-41] Papagelis, Athanasios, Papagelis, Manos and Zaroliagis, Christos, Enabling Social Navigation on the Web, in: IEEE Computer Science Press, pages 1-7, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2008, 2008.
Abstract: For a place that gathers millions of people theWeb seems pretty lonely at times. This is mainly due to the current predominant browsing scenario; that of an individual participating in an autonomous surfing session. We believe that people should be seen as an integral part of the browsing and searching activity towards a concept known as social navigation. In this work, we extend the typical web browser�s functionality so as to raise awareness of other people having similar web surfing goals at the current moment. We further present features and algorithms that facilitate online communication and collaboration towards common searching targets. The utility of our system is established by experimental studies. The extensions we present can be easily adopted in a typical web browser.
[RACTI-RU1-2008-43] Papagelis, Athanasios, Papagelis, Manos and Zaroliagis, Christos, iClone: Towards Online Social Navigation, in: 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pages 237-238, ACM Press, HT 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2008.
Abstract: For a place that gathers millions of people the Web seems pretty lonely at times. This is mainly due to the current predominant browsing scenario; that of an individual participating in an autonomous surfing session. We believe that people should be seen as an integral part of the browsing and searching activity towards a concept known as social navigation. Based on this observation we present iClone (www.iclone.com), a social web browser that is able to raise awareness of other people surfing similar websites at the same time by utilizing temporal correlations of their web history logs and to facilitate online communication and collaboration.