Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch
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https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v3i11.626Abstract
We are living in a time of increasing information overload. Many solutions have been or are being drawn up to tackle this problem. However, today's most prominent solutions - such as Information Push and Search Engines - do not seem to be able to fully handle the problem. In this paper we will look at a number of solutions which may help us deal with information overload in the online marketplace. These solutions include "agency", agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and - most importantly - information brokering. Some of these solutions require changes in the whole groundwork underlying the online marketplace; they are about whole new ways of interfacing with the online marketplace as well as the full employment of possibly intelligent software agents.Downloads
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1998-11-02
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Hermans, B. (1998). Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch. First Monday, 3(11). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v3i11.626
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