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Ambient findability

Author: Peter Morville
Publisher: Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Looks at the social aspects of information retrieval and the technology of searching the Internet for all kinds of information.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Morville
ISBN: 0596007655 9780596007652
OCLC Number: 61260129
Description: xiv, 188 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Lost and found. --
Definition --
Information literacy --
Business value --
Paradise lost --
2. A brief history of wayfinding. --
All creatures great and small --
Human wayfinding in natural habitats --
Maps and charts --
The built environment --
Wayfinding in the noosphere --
The web --
The Baldwin effect --
3. Information interaction. --
Defining information --
Information retrieval --
Language and representation --
The people problem --
Information interaction --
4. Intertwingled. --
Everyware --
Wayfinding 2.0 --
Findable objects --
Imports --
Exports --
Convergence --
Asylum --
5. Push and pull. --
Marketing --
Design --
Findability hacks --
Personalization --
Ebb and flow --
6. The sociosemantic web. --
Us and them --
The social life of metadata --
Documents --
A walk in the park --
7. Inspired decisions. --
Bounded irrationality --
Informed decisions --
Network culture --
The body politic --
Information overload --
Graffiti theory --
Sources of inspiration --
Ambient findability --
Index.
Responsibility: Peter Morville.
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Looks at the social aspects of information retrieval and the technology of searching the Internet for all kinds of information.

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