Sunday, November 13, 2011

Social recommendations-the power of communities

A nice presentations at WEB 2.0 summit about recommendations and reputation powered by communities. Recommendations and ranking will make your life easy in the future apps....

Monday, October 31, 2011

Viral marketing

Some ideas about how to make viral videos successful!

The evolution of the Web-The machine is us/ing us

A nice video about user generated content and the evolution of the web technology. Web 2.0 and beyond...The machine is us/ing us?-or digital ethnography?

Social Network for ePhilantropy

It'sOneHumanity (IOH) is a social network for humanitarians.

About IOH:
"Launched on February 5th 2011, this social network represents a strategic effort to unite humanitarians around the world, engage them into discussion and facilitate the mutual education process to ultimately create powerful grass-root social movements that will help us fulfill our mission and change the world in line with our vision."

Great concept and interesting network. Bringing people with a similar mindset together to enable collaborative action.

Web Interaction design-best practices

One of my students from Spring 2011 class think that Nike's website is a great website in terms of web interaction design see the student comment below.

The designer and developer Ian Coyle has done a fantastic job of making the routine and even mundane experience of scrolling an enjoyable and exciting user experience, by means of the so-called "parallax-effect".

Interaction design with gloves

This is a "minority report" style of Interaction design. One can manipulate and control virtual objects just like in real world using gloves.

Women Behavior on Facebook- data analysis example

This is a simple example of basic descriptive statistics  analysis of women behavior on Facebook. As one can read in the Mashable article, this study was intended to investigate new business models on Web 2.0 but it lead to some other findings about women and their Facebook friends.

Do you agree with this study?

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Web Interaction Design

Content, structure, and teaching:

The evolution of the web towards social web has enabled new forms of interaction in the private as well as in the business sphere, where users are invited to contribute, share knowledge and collaborate. Social web and social networking impact businesses, create new forms of interaction with customers, facilitate open innovation, viral marketing and in certain cases oblige businesses to adapt to new communication channels and new business models. The course provides students with an overview of tools and techniques for web interaction and involves analyses of websites and networks as well as design and linguistic and cultural planning of interaction projects emphasizing cultural usability, user-centric aspects and the needs of business environments. The course introduces a broad scope of issues, topics, paradigms within and beyond the scope of Human-Computer Interaction complemented with practical assignments and cases.

The following topics are on the agenda:

- presentation of the evolution of the web and of associated technologies

- designing for collaboration and communication

- the process of interaction design

- workflow planning

- user modeling and user-centered approaches to interaction design

- evaluation frameworks.

The course’s development of personal competences:

Within this course students learn:

1. to consider the cognitive, social and affective issues that underpin the design of web technologies.

2. to analyze and evaluate multilingual sites, various interactive technologies including social networks considering linguistic, cultural and design oriented perspectives

3. to plan the construction, architecture, design of a collaborative project

4. to share, communicate and disseminate knowledge using novel technologies

5. to understand how interfaces affect users

6. about evaluation paradigms and techniques

In general, the student will learn basic principles of web interaction design and get acquainted with and get hands on emerging technologies for communication and knowledge sharing.