Birukou, A., Blanzieri, E., & Giorgini, P. (2006). Implicit culture as a tool for social navigation. , . Available from http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/749026.html. (edit)

The authors, researchers at the University of Trento, Italy, suggest that implicit culture can be used as a tool in the improvement of socialnavigation . More specifically, it may be used in order to solve problems related to the difficult task of guiding people to relevant information. They also describe socialnavigation naturally similar to implicit culture with a few minor distinctions. They state that the two differ in the way they analyze the setting; while implicit culture takes into account the behaviour of the whole community, socialnavigation is more interested in the actions of the individual user. After reviewing the points made by the authors, it seems more plausible that implicit culture is a property that socialnavigation must inherently apply at all times and not a property that can be considered as an optional measure for improvement. This is because the aim of socialnavigation is to guide other users to they desired choices based on the experiences of the community (essentially the definition provided by the author for implicit culture).