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Ambient Findability
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Ambient Findability (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Peter Morville (Author) (edit contributors)

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How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be... read more

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  • “"Communication is the backbone of all human society from ancient tribes to modern nations."”
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  • Ambient findability describes a fast emerging world where we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime.
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  • Information is about communication. It involves the exchange of symbols, ideas, messages, and meaning between people. As such, it's characterized by ambiguity, redundancy, inefficiency, error, and indescribable beauty.
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  • At this point, you may be wondering: what exactly is findability? This section is for you. The quality of being locatable or navigable. The degree to which a particular object is easy to discover or locate. The degree to which a system or environment supports navigation and retrieval.
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  • Metadata tags applied by humans can indicate aboutness thereby improving precision.
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  • Precision measures how well a system retrieves only the relevant documents. Recall measures how well a system retrieves all the relevant documents.
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  • This is the paradox of ambient findability. As information volume increases, our ability to find any particular item decreases.
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  • Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged—people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled. —Theodor Holm Nelson
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  • the noosphere is composed of all the interacting minds and ideas on earth.
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  • Users don't read, they scan. Break up pages into clearly defined areas. Provide multiple navigational paths. Keep it simple. Don't make me think!
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  • In the information age, transmedia information literacy is a core life skill. The American Library Association defines information literacy as 'a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.'
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First Sentence edit see section history

I'm sitting on a beach in Newport, Rhode Island.

Table of Contents edit see section history

About the Author

Preface

1. Lost & Found
2. A Brief History of Wayfinding
3. Information Interaction
4. Intertwingled
5. Push and Pull
6. The Sociosemantic Web
7. Inspired Decisions

Index

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Peter Morville (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Simon St. Laurent (Editor)
  2. Adam Witwer - Production Editor
  3. Karen Montgomery (Cover Artist)
  4. David Futato (Designer) - Interior Designer

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: O' Reilly Media, Inc.
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 2005
ISBN: 0596007655
Page Count: 188

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