Benyon, D.R., Cognitive Ergonomics as Navigation in Information Space. Ergonomics, 1998. 41(2): p. 153-156.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....computers and different media such as video and animations, touching, gesturing and so on. The notion that we could see people as existing in an information space, or in multiple information spaces grew, and was offered as a challenge to the predominant people outside the information view of HCI [1, 2]. Alongside this came the recognition that using computers needed to become a more enjoyable, social activity. The development of the Internet, particularly for leisure activities, and the emergence of Internet Service Providers that bundled news, chat rooms, Web access with remote game playing, ....

....they are all based on a onecomputer one user view of interaction. How can the ideas of social navigation be made central and be used to inform design . The ideas of social navigation build on a more general concept that interacting with computers can be seen as navigation in information space [1, 5]. Whereas traditional human computer interaction (HCI) sees the person outside the information space, separate from it, trying to bridge the gulfs between themselves and information, the alternative view of HCI as navigation within the space sees people as inhabiting and moving through their ....

Benyon, D.R., Cognitive Ergonomics as Navigation in Information Space. Ergonomics, 1998. 41(2): p. 153-156.

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