Collaborative feed reading in a community

Netta Aizenbud-Reshef, Ido Guy, Michal Jacovi

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Abstract

Feed readers have emerged as one of the salient applications that characterize Web 2.0. Lately, some of the available readers introduced social features, analogously to other Web 2.0 applications, such as recommendations and tagging. Yet, most of the readers lack collaborative features, such as the ability to share feeds in a community or divide the reading task among community members. In this paper we describe CoffeeReader, a web-based feed reader, which combines social and collaborative features, and is deployed in a small community within our company. CoffeeReader provides awareness of other users' feed lists and read status; it enables information sharing such as tags and recommendations; and aims to support coordination of filtering through feeds to locate important items. We compare these group collaboration features of CoffeeReader with emerging features in publicly available feed readers; present the outcomes of using CoffeeReader within our community; and discuss our findings and their implications on making feed readers more collaborative.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work
Pages277-280
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'09 - Sanibel Island, FL, United States
Duration: 10 May 200913 May 2009

Publication series

NameGROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Conference

Conference2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanibel Island, FL
Period10/05/0913/05/09

Keywords

  • Collaboration
  • Feed aggregator
  • Feed reader
  • Rss reader
  • Social media
  • Social software

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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