Navigation Efficiency of Social Bookmarking Service

Author

Ishikawa, Takashi ; Klaisubun, Piyanuch ; Honma, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Nippon Inst. of Technol., Saitama

fYear

2007

fDate

5-12 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

280

Lastpage

283

Abstract

The paper describes an experiment on the navigation efficiency of social bookmarking service for information discovery. The purpose is to evaluate the effects of navigation information that can be used in choosing users´ libraries, which includes the number of bookmarks in each library, the ratio of user´s bookmarks in a bookmark collection, and the ratio of bookmarks with certain tags in each library. The experiment was performed by computer simulation for an example real dataset. The navigation efficiency was evaluated by the average number of bookmarks browsed to find a randomly selected target bookmark for each randomly selected tag. The result shows that all these information effect on the navigation efficiency with statistical significance.

Keywords

information retrieval; library automation; bookmark collection; information discovery; navigation efficiency; social bookmarking service; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Conferences; Displays; Information resources; Intelligent agent; Libraries; Navigation; Paper technology; Web pages; social bookmarkingsocial navigationnavigation efficiencycomputer simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on

Conference_Location

Silicon Valley, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-3028-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IATW.2007.62

Filename

4427589