Mid-Project Gantt Chart
After the Easter break, the group met to discuss progress. Nearly all work is completed, with each member still having one remaining task to complete, with a week remaining until the blog deadline.
Meeting 8 – Thursday 26th March
Today was a brief meeting as a few people are on holiday. Topics discussed: Received ERGO approval so we can send our survey to our willing participants. How to deal with under 18’s data. This was a long discussion about the legal ramifications of using the detail of minors. We considered restricting the app to 18+ to remove that… Read more →
Meeting #7
This was an impromptu meeting at the start of Easter as we happened to be around. Topics discussed were: Autogenerating RDF triples through the app to map “level 10 foodies” of particular age within a semantically linked ontology. Affiliation model might not work if we crowdsource ratings. The advertising model may be more applicable The semantic database could target… Read more →
Meeting #6
In the last meeting before the Easter break, the following topics were covered: The form for the survey was submitted in an old format (see blog post below) so was resubmitted. I (Nick) have been reading through publications of ethics statements regarding archiving qualitative and quantitative data for apps, and will be releasing a blog post soon. Many of us… Read more →
Meeting #5
The main topic of today’s discussion was the iSurvey questionnaire. We hashed out some sample questions, debating over the style of questions and answers (eg whether or not to use the Likert Scale) and managed to complete it by the end of the meeting. We talked about 13 different points relating to the survey questions, the most important being the… Read more →
Meeting the Mentor (Meeting #4)
The first meeting with Tim went well today. We explained our topic, discussed his previous experience with the coursework and listened to his advice. We also outlined tasks that needed to be done before and during the Easter holiday break. Topics discussed during the meeting Topics How the app fits in with other apps How it differs and what its… Read more →
The Genesis of Scene (Meetings #1, #2 and #3)
Scene was the final iteration of a number of ideas that were floated during our Initial Meeting. Our first suggestion was completely different and this conveys the journey the team went through. Report-it was proposed as a browser add-on used to report malicious comments/users from any website/forum etc. (Nic Fair – Report-It). Users would have a global profile that would… Read more →