Building a better social news browser
So we identified that online social networks don’t make it easy to find the news that interests you, and we discussed different ways that we can figure out which social context each of your friends fits into. How can we now design a better user interface for browsing news on social networks?
In my dissertation, I suggested interfaces that group the stories according to the person they relate to, then arrange these people in two dimensions according to:
- their social context (by looking at shared friendships and co-appearance in photos)
- how much interest the user shows in stories about this person (by observing the user’s behaviour)
Here’s a short video I made to show one of these designs:
For more interface designs and details about how they could be implemented, please refer to my dissertation (PDF, 3.5Mb).
