Social navigation of food recipes

Abstract

The term Social Navigation captures every-day behaviour used to find information, people, and places -namely through watching, following, and talking to people. We discuss how to design information spaces to allow for social navigation. We applied our ideas in a recipe recommendation system. In a follow-up user study, subjects state that social navigation adds value to the service: it provides for social affordance, and it helps turning a space into a social place. The study also reveals some unresolved design issues, such as the snowball effect where more and more users follow each other down the wrong path, and privacy issues.

The impact of social navigation on privacy policy configuration

“…Social navigation has been studied and used in a variety of collaborative domains such as helping users select news stories [19], recipes [23], and research articles [15]. A more complete review can be found in [12].…”

Recipe Recommendation: Accuracy and Reasoning

“…However, his approach requires an extensive knowledge base and it is unclear whether elements like taste and texture can be automatically derived from a recipe text. A recipe navigation system with social recommendations is studied by Svensson et al [12]. A collaborative filtering approach is applied, based on rating for shared recipes.…”

Personalized Techniques for Lifestyle Change

“…A meal recommender system based on user browsing patterns is presented by Svensson et al [10]. Freyne et al investigated three recommender strategies, which break down meals into ingredients for generating recommendations [2].…”