(Social) Activities

Summary

Background and goals

As a user I want to see the history of whom (including myself) is using, viewing, or changing (a part of) my presentation deck(s), questions, translations, comments and tests. Who (including myself) comments on my presentations, questions, et cetera.. and other social feature (TBD). I can also see a history of what I did myself.

As a user, also I want to share decks on social networks.

T2.6 Social groups: (Start M8, End M36; Lead: VUA; participants: Fraunhofer, InfAI, ATHENA, SOTON) SlideWiki promotes social learning, sharing of educational material and collaboration between its users. Still, bringing together individuals and organizations with similar backgrounds or interests, and enabling them to share thoughts and ideas is a missing feature that would greatly contribute to SlideWiki’s image of a true online community. We intend to fill this gap by providing support for creation and management of social groups. Group administrators will be able support/promote/select SlideWiki content they find interesting (or think it would be interesting to their members) which will bring benefit to all members as they will be allowed to browse for content from trusted sources. For instance, in this way, faculties (and their departments) will be able to share materials for the courses and SlideWiki content they find valuable. On the other hand, students will be able to find all recommended material at a single point and to create their own private groups where they will be able to privately discuss presentations, questions, quizzes, etc.

Assumptions

Requirements

User interaction and design

Description of fields/input/elements + validation + test scenarios

Questions

Below is a list of questions to be addressed as a result of this requirements document:

Not Doing

Source material for user/stakeholder feedback

Requirements (/user stories) from pilot roadmap:

Evaluation/improvements by Farid Hasanov master thesis :

Issue4 - activity bar of users. The green bar has the option of switching on and off different user activities such as “follow”, “deck creation”, “translation”, “tests” and so on. The design of the bar requires time in order to understand how to interact with it. Metrics violated: Color and Style, Graphics.

Source. The issue was discovered during my own experience with the website and later was confirmed by one user.

Issue5 - Time to open activities. Another small drawback concerning the activity bar, in that users were dissatisfied with the fact that rectangles showing recent activities were opened one-by-one, or two-by-two, when “Show more...” is pressed.

Metric violated: Friendliness.

Source. The issue was was brought to light by one user.

Current state. The problems with the activity bar are shown on this figure:

Figure 5.22: Activity bar.[51].

Possible Solution. First, a mockup of solution will be presented.

Figure 5.23: Mockup for user’s page.

The space to the right of the image now provides more information about the user in an effectively structured way. This information is still the subject of user preference and not considered mandatory. Below, a space for providing broader information is located. In the current version of Slidewiki, only this area is present on the user’s page. In the field below a new tab, “Following”, is added in order to display the people the user is following. The biggest innovation is the simplification of the “Latest activities” of a user, in terms of ease of viewing. As before, every activity opens in different colored rectangles when the corresponding button is activated. The drawback here is that all the buttons are of the same color and it is hard to follow which button calls which rectangle.  This issue was fixed by adding the corresponding colors to the buttons. Now, the “Follow activities” button is blue and the rectangle displaying the user’s follow activities will also be shown in blue, and this will apply to every button. 

Evaluation at UniBonn :  

Project Partners feedback: