SocialNet is a private social network developed by the GRIAL Research Group at the University of Salamanca to allow relatives and authorized persons to monitor the daily progress of patients. It uses Drupal as a content management system and additional modules to provide features like calculating statistical indicators of patient walls and automating workflows. SocialNet allows sharing of pictures, videos and texts about a patient's progress with their private area only accessible to authorized individuals.

1. SocialNet
Alicia García Holgado
Research Group of InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL)
University of Salamanca (Spain)
aliciagh@usal.es
Zamora, Spain, June2nd, 2016

2. Introduction
• Private social network for monitoring daily progress of patients by
their relatives
• The main aim of SocialNet is providing a social interaction context
restricted to relatives and authorized persons by the patient or
his/her legal guardian, in order to they can track the daily progress
of the patient
• Each patient has a private area only accessible to authorized
persons and their caregivers, where they can share pictures, videos
or texts about its progress
• SocialNet is availableonline through http://psiquiatria.grial.eu/en

3. Technology (I)
• SocialNet has been developed bytheGRIAL Research Group from theUniversityof
Salamanca and INTRAS Foundation
• The functional prototypeof SocialNet is based on Drupal (http://drupal.org)
• Content Management System (CMS) that allows extending thefunctionalityof its
core with a hugeamount of modules developed by an activeand open
community
• Developed in PHP
• Deployed with Apacheand Nginx as web servers and MariaDB as database
management system
• Several modules havebeen installed in order to providethe SocialNet features

4. Technology (II)
• Two modules have been developed:
• The first module calculates the statistical indicatorsof each
patient's wall in order to send them automatically to the
concerned stakeholders through the notificationssystem
provided by Drupal
• The second module is centred on automate several workflows
related to the creation of wallsand the access of the patients
and relatives to them
• SocialNet provides a services layer in order to support the
interoperability among other appplications

5. Highlights
• Multilingual support
• The tool is accessible through different devices (smartphones,
tablets, etc.)
• User friendly
• Secure software
• Based on Drupal, a Content Management System (CMS) used by the
European Commission
• High scalability and flexibility degree

6. Public frontpage

7. User

8. Private frontpagefor pasive users
• The main page of pasive users
shows the user’s wall with
several publications and the
people who interact inside the
wall, such as relatives, friends,
caregivers.

9. Post on the user’swall (pasive user)
• Relatives and authorized
persons can play two roles
within SocialNet, depending on
the permissions grantedthem
by the caregivers when they
provide them with access to the
wall. They pasive users only can
see the information published by
others on the patient's wall.

10. User’sprofile

11. Authorized person
Relatives

12. Private frontpagefor active users
• Authorized persons could
perform different tasks on
patient's wall, such as publishing
an activity, writing comments, or
rating a publication

13. Authorized user’sprofile

14. Caregivers

15. Private frontpagefor caregivers
• The main page of a caregiver
display information about the
walls of the patients that he is in
charge
• Moreover has access to the
user’s profiles who are part of
the walls

16. Caregiver’sprofile

17. User’swall
• Caregivers can manage the
access and permissions in the
walls
• They can get some statistics
about the interaction inside the
wall

18. Caregivers’supervisor

19. Private frontpagefor caregivers’supervisor
• The main page of caregivers’
supervisor display information
about his/her caregivers and the
walls managed by them

20. Caregivers’supervisorprofile
• The caregivers’supervisor
profile display information about
his/her caregiversand a list of
walls that he/she has access

21. Responsivedesign

22. Smartphones

23. SocialNet
Alicia García Holgado
Research Group of InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL)
University of Salamanca (Spain)
aliciagh@usal.es
Zamora, Spain, June2nd, 2016