This post will give an overview of recent news related to Quick-Response codes, privacy and anonymity and the number of social network users. Quick Response codes In an attempt to exploit the power of social media and Web 2.0 and introduce successful marketing channels that are based on context-aware information, ‘Paperlinks’, a company which enable businesses to establish their own… Read more →
This post aims to identify the relevant research areas for Leapin.It. This requires further clarification on whether leapin.It is categorised as ubiquitous computing, augmented reality or a combination of both. Mixed reality [1] combines virtual worlds with real worlds by facilitating interaction between physical objects from the real world and 3D graphics from the virtual environment. Figure 1 shows an example… Read more →
Mobile devices are becoming increasingly pervasive and, with high speed internet becoming more common in these devices, there is greater opportunity for rich media consumption in pervasive contexts. For these reasons, we have chosen to focus our social network on mobile devices. Pervasiveness The introduction of mobile devices has bought about a “post-pc” era of innovation. Smartphones, for example, are… Read more →
This post will give an overview of the process of designing the survey, which would be distributed to social network users to help us understand how social networks are used. Motivation The purpose of conducting this survey is to investigate how people use social networks, what motivates them to post and show their activities in these networks, and consider how… Read more →
In this post, we will examine existing virtual world that exist, in order to better understand the how they are designed and used, and the features they commonly have. Drawing on our previous analysis of gaming social networks, we have first identified a number of virtual world social networks and their features. NAME AUDIENCE TAGS Gaia Online general; Anime and… Read more →
In order to determine the viability of a gaming social network, we’ll discuss some existing social networks which are targeted at this audience. In this post we’ll focus on identifying what social networks exist for gamers and their features. In a later post, we’ll do case studies of a small selection of those to better understand how they are used…. Read more →
Editors note: This post is regarding an earlier idea (GameX) which was later dismissed in favour of LeapIn.it (virtual world). However, this still offers some insight into how rich media is used within social networks and when MMOGs are considered as virtual worlds. This post will outline academic work that has been done in the area of social networks specific… Read more →
In this post, we will analysis some existing systems in order to better understand the how they are designed and used, and the features they commonly have. In this way, we can make our software have some unique features. In the following table, we have identified a number of existing social systems and listed their features. Name Description & Audience… Read more →
Before we discuss ideas for social networks, we’ll briefly explain the motivations behind developing a new social network. Social networks have becoming increasingly important in modern society – they are used to communicate, form relationships and share experiences. Further to this, social networks have become increasingly pervasive with the increased popularity of mobile devices and high-speed internet. This is changing… Read more →
