Social Navigation and Annotation for Electronic Books

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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

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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?

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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

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Spatial Annotation Interface

• A Spatial Annotation Interface for Electronic
  Textbooks build with Million Books approach
• Staking a space
• Commenting

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Page-level Navigation Support

• Visual Cues - annotation background and border
• Background Style
• Background filling Ownership
• Background colorOwners attitude
• Border style
• Border color Positiveness
• Border thickness of comments
• Border strokePublic or personal

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Global Navigation Support

• Guiding users to most read and most
  annotatedpages
• Group-level socialwisdom
• Map Navigation
• Cell Navigation
• Page/Annotation Navigation

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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

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My Annotations
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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
  

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Thank You!