Team BASK

By Kanan Farzaliyev

Watch and Learn:

• How to Build a Community Website: A series of videos hosted on YouTube for teaching how to build a communite Website. This is the first part. This part is about how to build a dynamic member based portal, community web site, or social network using PHP, MySQL, and Flash ActionScript 3.0.
• Web Intersect Friend Add System: Another series of tutorial hosted in YouTube for learning how to build a custom friend adding and management application system using PHP, MySQL, and jQuery.

Read and Learn:

• Create a Social Networking Site with Ning: With this tool, once can build a social destination to create a community. Ning is the leading online platform for the world’s organizers, activists and influencers to create their own social network.

BBC – The Virtual Revolution

In this series, Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how the World Wide Web is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. She explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise. (More Information)

22.02.2011 Roadmap

In the third meeting, unfortunately our mentor was not present due to backache so we started our meeting without him.

The goal of this meeting was mainly on deciding what we should do next and how much we have come so far. Everyone successfully had installed DropBox program and everyone had already finished the literature review. However after we talked, we found out that there are some deficiencies in our project.

1. Analysis of existing similar tools: There is only one existing similar project explained in our blog. So we were supposed to go and research whether we can find more existing similar project in which we can get inspired or fill any gaps that they may have.

2. Questionnaires: For our project we agreed to do both questionnaires and interview in which we have the opportunity to find out more about our users and their different needs. For now, we were supposed to think about possible questions and we agreed to work on the interview later.

3. Prototype: We also agreed on thinking about prototype and possible design layout that we think might be appropriate. Of course we have to wait till we have the result of questionnaire and what user think so we can have our requirements and use cases then we can have good prototype. However this prototype would be an abstract brainstorming on where we should put design components. Later in our interviews we will ask to see which design seems to be more appropriate.

4. On-going sections: There are some sections such as tutorials or news items which have an on-going nature and will be filled by information through our project life cycle.

These are all the tasks that we have to think about them for the next week.

After these introductory steps, we can start thinking about more technical aspects of project like UML, requirements and others.

Similar case of our project in Korea.

There is a community on internet before enroll University.

I do not know when it’s started but at least it has had around 10 years in Korea. ( I used this kind of community before I started university in 2003.)

It is limited in university such as students of Uni of Soton, students of Oxford Uni. They do not care about degree, because they would be separated themselves and be made by manager (fresher or existed students) a specific board.

They are sharing simple information like who they are, where they live, what is their contact no.

It will helpful to make close each other. So they can be a group before start university and reduce an embarrassing if they don’t know where the lecture room

And have a meeting themselves (occasionally their senior will participate in that group meeting for helping them about university life.)

Usually, fresher will make a question and senior answer them.

They can ask what they will learn. Which module will be got easy point, which professor is good for students and how to make a timetable.

Of course, it all happens before start University.

Taekyun Will Kim
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
1	Social Networks, the Tertius Iungens Orientation, and Involvement in Innovation	Download	Download
2	Similar case of our project in Korea	Download	Download
3	Online Social Networking Issues Within Academia and Pharmacy Education	Download	Download
4	SOCIAL NETWORKING AND DOPA	Download	Download
Shahin Jahromi
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
5	The benefits of Facebook “Friends:” social capital and college student’s use of online social network sites	Download	Download
6	Social network sites: definition, history and scholarship	Download	Download
7	A model of a trust-based recommendation system on a social network	Download	Download
Kanan Farzaliyev
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
8	Introducing Web 2.0: social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians	Download	Download
9	What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software	Download	Download
10	Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship	Download	Download
11	Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook	Download	Download
12	Facing the Facebook	Download	Download
Botong Li
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
13	A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States	Download	Download
14	‘Screw Blackboard… do it on Facebook!’: an investigation of students’ educational use of Facebook	Download	Download
15	College students’ social networking experiences on Facebook	Download	Download
16	Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook	Download	Download
17	Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students?	Download	Download
18	Student Life on the Facebook	Download	Download
Amir Sezavar Keshavarz
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
19	Legal Issues in Social Networking	Download	Download
20	Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of Facebook and MySpace	Download	Download
21	Motivations for Social Networking at Work	Download	Download

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References:
1. Barsky E. and Purdon M., Introducing Web 2.0: social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians, 2007
2. Tim O’Reilly, What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software, O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol (CA), USA, 2007
3. Boyd D. M., Ellison N. B., Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2007
4. Hewitt A., Forte A., Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and
Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook, GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, 2006
5. Bugeja M. J., Facing the Facebook, http://chronicle.com. January 27, 2006
6. A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States Susan B. Barnes, First Monday Vol 11, 2006
7. ‘Screw Blackboard… do it on Facebook!’: an investigation of students’ educational use of Facebook Neil Selwyn, University of London, 2007
8. College students’ social networking experiences on Facebook Tiffany A. Pempek, Yevdokiya A. Yermolayeva, Sandra L. Calvert, Journal Of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
9. Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook Anne Hewitt and Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
10. Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students? John Thompson, Journal of Online, 2007
11. Student Life on the Facebook Fred Stutzman, University of North Carolina, 2006
12. Kathryn L. Ossian, Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone PLC, Legal Issues in Social Networking.
13. Dwyer, C., Hiltz, S.R. and Passerini, K., Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of Facebook and MySpace. In Proc AMCIS 2007 (2007)
14. DiMicco, J., Millen, D.R., Geyer, W., Dugan, C., Brownholtz, B., & Muller, M. 2008. Motivations for social networking at work. In Proceedings of CSCW’08.

This document, Intelligent Social Movie Recommender, is available to download from DropBox. In case of any modification, please update all the versions. You have to update word document, PDF document in DropBox Folder and Also this post.

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By: Amir Sezavar Keshavarz

Brief

“Intelligent Social Movie Recommender” is a SNN which gathers people and friends together and recommend movies or theaters to them base on their preferences. This SNN will identify friends interests to each other based on their preferences and then recommend a movie in the best possible location to them.

Users will register themselves in the website and identify different interests and personal details. More information let the agents to know the user better and recommend better package to him.

After that, the users can start adding new friends based on their common interests, find their old friends, or add those that the agent recommends. In this case they are building a community.

The agent then will find out the best movie, theater, or performance based on user interests and then recommends other users which may want to come to that performance. If all agrees to this choice, the agent will choose the best convenient and close location to all users and recommend it to them. After accepting this location, the agent will find out the best path from all users house to the cinema and recommend it to them. Also they can accept on gathering somewhere which the agent can recommend based on their interests and then they can go from that place.

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Features

• Personal Profile: Every user has his own personal profile with different sections helping him to manage his networks and hobbies. This will act as a gateway to other features of website.
• Interests and Personal Detail: In this section, which contains various subsections, users will identify their interests to different things which may involves:
  • Movie Genre: The genres of movie that the user prefer.
  • Performer: This is the favorite actor or actress of users.
  • Musics: Favorite music of user.
  • Movies: Favorite movie of user.
  • Other Interests: Other interests which may help agent for its recommendation
  • About Me: About user

• Location: Users will identify his current location allowing the agent to propose the best convenient and close cinema location to him.
• Restaurant: Users will identify the kind of foods they prefer allowing the agent to recommend restaurant to them.
• Ranking: Users can rank to the performance, cinema and restaurant allowing the agent to recommend better choice for them.

My Idea

MY idea is to make a friend who has same interesting things such as Film, Drama, and Music using by Social network.

For example, if someone watched a film and they want to share their opinion or feeling with stranger, they can join the social network community and make a conversation.

Moreover, they can pin where they are on the map, and possibly they can meet when they go to travel.

In fact, this is getting famous in Korea; however it cannot really social networking and uses it.

I recommended that there should be need a limitation for security and reliable community.

Many people want to visit the place where the location of acting in Film or Drama. They also share the picture and location information on the map.

Perhaps, some people cannot visit the area where the location. There are lots of reason such as far from where they live, money and time. But they can check the picture on the map from others pictures.

When someone visit the location, and they want to meet stranger who has interesting in same social networking community. Possibly visitor will know where they are using the map information what I mentioned.

So, basically my idea is based on the map. Put it on the map what their information and share what they have.

By Taekyun W.K.

This document, SOTON Student Connect, is available to download from DropBox. In case of any modification, please update all the versions. You have to update word document, PDF document in DropBox Folder and Also this post.

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By: Amir Sezavar Keshavarz, Shahin Jahromi

Brief and Overview

“SOTON Student Connect” is a Social Network Site (SNS) designed for students of the University of Southampton newcomers to bring opportunities for socializing and adapting better to their new life.

In this SNS, students will register into the system with their university email addresses. After that, they can add their friends, find new friends who have something in common with them. They also can plan for an event or group study.

At University of Southampton, there are various portals and services which students and staff can use in order to fulfill their daily life needs. These needs are mostly academic and they have not considered the social aspects that much. Furthermore, there are some other needs that students have in their student life.

In this proposed SNS, we provide the opportunity for users to identify their field of study and their enrolled modules and in case they follow any module’s page, they can communicate with their class mates, ask questions and find their answers.

Apart from this academic need, they can also create communities and societies and try to attract more students and invite them to their groups.

Another important part of student’s life is their accommodation. Some students are in university accommodations and some stay in privately rented houses. In either case, they have the opportunity to add their address and find near friends and find people in their halls of residence.

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Features

• Personal Profile: Every student has his own personal profile with different sections helping him to manage his networks and hobbies. This will act as a gateway to other features of website.
• Field of Study and Enrolled Modules: Students will be identified by their field of study and enrolled modules in order to get involved. After that, they following the module page and are allowed for different features such as posting and answering.
• Personal Details
  • Sports: Identify his favorite sports
  • Musics: Identify his favorite musics
  • Movies: Identify his favorite movies
  • Interests: Identify his favorite interests
  • Location: Identify his hometown and current location
  • Language: Identify languages he knows
  • About me: A Personal section for writing about himself allowing others to know him better
• Blog: Students have a personal space to write about anything they might be interested in and publish it in their profile. There are other features such as like and comment for blog entries. students can also import their external blog entries to their personal profile.
• Resume: In this section, students can create their resume and skills and upload it on their personal file store. The CV will be available for everyone in the Internet and also they can upload their CV.
• Accommodation: The next major part of this SNS, is accommodation section. Students have the opportunity to identify where they are living. In case of university accommodation, they can add their flat mates. They also have other features such as writing about their experiences, different events, or any problem that they might experiencing through their living. Their flat manager will have the opportunity to view this space and manage any problem that might be available.
• Societies and Communities: Different kinds of societies and communities are available for students to get involved or support. They are able to create a new ones or join existing ones.
• Holiday and Trip Management: In holidays or weekends, students can join a trip to somewhere. In this space, they can find people with same interests and plan with themselves to go somewhere.
• Group Project and Group Studying: Some modules have group project or students may wish to study in groups. In this space, they can find other students with same interests and join them.
• Reporting: In this section, students are provided with a visualized chart demonstrating their network based on different criterion such as: Friend categories, Religion, Political, Sports, Musics, Movies, Books, Arts, Games, Television, Activities and Interests.
• Sports: Here, students can manage their interests in sports and find people with same taste. Then they can go to gym and exercise together or compete in various fields.
• Restaurant and Eating: Students can suggest different kinds of food and good restaurants with each other.
• Calendar: Every student has different kinds of calendar such as:
  • Event: Students can keep track of their event lists
  • Study: Students can keep track of his study calendar and timing. To plan for study time.
  • Travel Arrangement: Travel arrangement helps users to keep track of their travel times.
  • Photographs: To put photos in their calendar and view them.
  • Financial Transaction: This calendar helps students to keep track of financial transaction.
• Events: Students can plan for different events, find other students with similar taste who are not necessary studying in the same module.

Idea
My proposed idea is a website called ‘WhatWhenWhere’ (though the name can change). The idea is best described as a micro-forum meets public wiki (like for example Sickipedia, which is a heavily NSFW website that specialises in offensive and rude jokes where people vote for their favourites, due to the content only go on there with caution) meets Twitter meets google “define:”. Users can post messages that contain a searchable and sortable term which I will describe as the ‘key word’, which could be an object, a scientific or technological process, a place, a date, or some social event (like a sports event or a movie). They then go on to write something of value about that term – it could be anything from what the term means or something humorous or something sentimental or anecdotal. The ‘key word’ can be chosen from a preset pool of key words or from what’s popular on that day on the site, or be a new user made one.
For example:
“Apple is a good company for products, but they seem to have hidden motives to take over the world.”
“1996 was an AWESOME year for music. Spice Girls?”
“Trolling is not a method of fishing anymore, but ACTUALLY means to annoy a lot of people online. I love Trolling.
“Manchester United vs. Wigan was the most one sided game I have ever seen, oh and the referee must have been watching a different game – he was awful.”
“Harry Potter is a terrible movie franchise. Who cares about stupid wizards and magic wands?”
Once these messages have been posted they start on a score of 0 other users can read them, and can choose to vote to agree with them (and add a positive point to the message’s score) or disagree (take points away and so give negative points). If a user signs up for an account that would be free, their vote has greater weight then a vote cast anonymously.
Users will be able to see the most voted up messages, and can also search for messages that contain the same ‘key word’ or are in the same category. Registered users can also click on the message body and then they can add comments about it or reply to already post comments. If the user actually disagrees with what was in the original message they can issue a ‘to the author of Challenge’ the original message directly that everyone can see and write what they think it should say.
For example here is what the messages could look like on the website and how people can challenge:
Jackisawesome01 says:
“Apple is a good company for products, but they seem to have hidden motives to take over the world.” Reply? Challenge? Agree! Disagree! Flag! Favourite?
Applefanboyx issues a CHALLENGE! To Jack01
Applefanboyx wrote:
“Apple always makes awesome stuff, and they look awesome and are awesome to use. Some people are just jealous because they use inferior products.” Reply? Challenge? Agree! Disagree! Flag! Favourite?
These challenges can also be agreed and disagreed with, if they get agreed with enough and actually overtake the original message in terms of score – they will be posted immediately below the original message. People can also choose to flag messages and replies. An example application of this would be voting flagging spam replies or replies that are offensive or irrelevant entirely, and eventually like sites like Youtube these replies will become hidden and if inappropriate enough – deleted. Any reply that gets agreed with enough will also have a star appear next to the reply.
Like websites where you have topics for example news websites or other joke websites, there will be genres that you can tag messages with for the type of content posted. Tags can include things like events, sport, recent, oddities, science, technology and more. People can also see what are the most popular or active (for example a message with 50+ replies) messages of the day/week/or month (like Twitter trends) and can choose to post about those things themselves, or contribute a reply. Another feature could be a sections showing the most agreed with messages and the most disagreed.
The whole point of this proposed idea is to encourage people to interact and share information and discussion of value to them about something and hopefully connect people through the subject of popular social terms or events, or academic interests all the way to niche interests.

By Botong Li

This document, SOTON Student Connect, is available to download from DropBox. In case of any modification, please update all the versions. You have to update word document, PDF document in DropBox Folder and Also this post.

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By: Amir Sezavar Keshavarz, Shahin Jahromi

Contributors: Kanan Farzaliyev, Botong Li and Taekyun Will Kim

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The final project which our team is going to implement.
The Second Meeting Of Our Team

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Brief:

The idea is to provide a social networking facility for the University of Southampton students and specially newcomers in order to enable them to start socializing and making friends as soon as they register to the university and before even they start their journeys to Southampton.

Feature list can be listed as follows:

1. Personal Profile: This can be considered as the first step in student’s registration process. students are required to fill in a registration form detailing their personal information such as name, university email address, interests and hobbies, field of study and enrolled modules and accommodation information. Based on these information the system would be able to suggest friends and recommend groups, events and activities

2. Field of Study and enrolled modules: This feature enables users to participate in course related activities arranged and facilitated by the system. For instance when students provide the system with the information regarding their course of study and enrolled modules for each semester, the system will generate a list detailing all students who have registered for each module. Students will then be able to identify their potential friends who have registered for the same modules and can proceed to create study and project group which will facilitate collaboration and will provide the students with enhanced study experience.

3. Accommodation: This section provides a good facility for students who will stay in university accommodations. The system can generate friend suggestion based on living in the same halls of residence as well as basing the suggestion on course of study and particular hobbies and interests. In addition the system will provide a facility for students to write reviews and rate their halls of residence which will prove an invaluable feature for new students to choose their new homes.

4. Groups and communities: Using this features students are able to either join the systems predefined groups or to create their own groups and invite their friends or other students to the group. These group can range from formal study groups to highly informal hobbies or sports groups. Using groups students are able to arrange events and to share their knowledge and activities related to group’s common interest.

5. Calendar: Each student will be provided with a personal calender by which users can organize their lives and add personal or university events. In addition, university events and events of groups and communities in which the user is a member will be added automatically to the user’s calender

6. Events: Using the events feature, both the university and users can add events such as a meetings, parties, sports events, dining plan etc and add all or parts of the students to that event. This feature also offers a reasonable measure of how many people will be attending each event.