The purpose of this post is to present the outcomes of the usability evaluation study which is described here. The study consisted of a survey, which was completed the critical friends Michael Day, Faranak Hardcastle and Laura Hyrjak. The standard interface This section of the study was designed to evaluate the standard linear interface, as described here. Advantages: Michael Day… Read more →
With a prototype now implemented, our critical friends will now evaluate it, giving particular attention to the usability. We will provide them with a instructions on areas of the system they should test, and what they should observe. This is split into three parts: interface comparison, general interface evaluation and concept evaluation. Interface comparison The participants are given two links… Read more →
In virtual worlds, people have digital representations that allow them to recognize each other, interact with other users and navigate in the virtual space. These representations are referred to as āavatarsā and they can be two dimensional images, three dimensional figures as shown in Figure 1, icons, textual descriptions or a combination of all of these [1]. Other components which… Read more →
In this post, we will design an ontology to describe LeapIn.it with the Semantic Web technology. Through building an ontology, we can provide mechanisms for other people to interrogate the dataset in meaningful ways. Additionally,Ā annotating the data will be helpful when usingĀ SPARQL to do some queries later on. We are using the ontology editing environment,Ā Protege 4.3. Class Hierarchy There are… Read more →
As described in our survey design post, the survey was designed for the purpose of understanding the sharing behaviours among the users of social networks who have shared interests, and to identify the problems with existing social networks.Ā The number of responses that have been received is 82. This post will describe the results of the survey and analyse the responses…. Read more →
This post will consider the social, ethical and legal consideration. This will cover four parts: intellectual property, social problems, community moderation and age restrictions. Intellectual property The Terms of Service of the LeapIn.it project will mention that content creators can publish their work under Creative Commons licenses [1].Ā By using these licenses, the users can preserve the copyrights of the… Read more →
This post will consider how people share content on social networks. This will provide the background necessarily for designing structures to enable content sharing in our social network. A study that was conducted to observe the way in which people share knowledge and participate in one of the largest forums, Yahoo Answers (YA), is highly relevant to our project; what… Read more →
In designing our social network, we will consider how we intend to facilitate communication between individuals. One important consideration is: who will be communicating to who? This post will identify who people will interact with and why. One way we can study this is by considering the models of homophily and heterophily. Rogers and Bhowmik (1958) discuss the concepts of… Read more →
In this post, we will identify three recent relevant news articles about social network found on popular media websites. We will later refer to these for analysis. Social media users migrating to smaller circles (CNN, 24 March 2014) Original article available here. In an age when people are encouraged to collect hundreds of Facebook “friends” and thousands of Twitter followers…. Read more →
Quick Response codes and Bar codes are machine-readable, two-dimensional black and white images that contain some information that can be collected via scanning Ā using the built-in cameras on smartphones. They can encode more than 4000 alphanumeric characters and more than 7000 numeric characters in one image [8].QR codes were invented in 1994 by a Japanese company called Denso Wave [1]…. Read more →
