Masters Thesis defense for Sameer Ahuja, July 17th, 2009. This presentation was live streamed on ustream.tv and Second Life. The video recording of the Ustream.tv livecast is available here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1823531
15. To reduce the risks involved in evalua7ng
only when the soCware is in the wild
But why do it, and why do it at a forma7ve stage?
To find fundamental issues and glaring
omissions in the support of social ac7ons on
the social network site
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18. We define social network sites as web‐based services that
allow individuals to
(1) construct a public or semi‐public profile within a
bounded system
(2) ar7culate a list of other users with whom they
share a connec7on
(3) view and traverse their list of connec7ons and
those made by others within a system
‐boyd, Ellison
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38. Tagging
Social Browsing Social Search Interac7on Sharing Content Collabora7on
High High High Good
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39. Ac7vity Streams
Social Browsing Social Search Interac7on Sharing Content Collabora7on
High High
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40. User Profiles
Social Browsing Social Search Interac7on Sharing Content Collabora7on
High High
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41. Comments
Social Browsing Social Search Interac7on Sharing Content Collabora7on
Good Good High Good
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42. Ra7ngs / Votes
Social Browsing Social Search Interac7on Sharing Content Collabora7on
Good
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43. Design Expecta7ons
Social Browsing Social Search Interac7on Sharing Content Collabora7on
Tagging High High High Good
Ac7vity
High High
Streams
Profiles High High
Comments Good Good High Good
Ra7ng/Votes Good
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44. Study
10 Par7cipants
Graduate Students at Virginia Tech
Colloki: 5 par7cipants CATspace: 5 par7cipants
Graduate Students in Departments Graduate Students in Department of
other than Computer Science at Virginia Tech Computer Science at Virginia Tech
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65. Colloki
Which one of the five topics listed on the homepage do you
think has been the most ac7ve recently amongst the slurp
community?
CATspace
Which is the latest assignment that he (Steve Edwards) has
published?
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