Our lecture in week 10 involved a group member from each project to give a short presentation on our project topics to the rest of the Social Computing and Media Class. I gave a presentation for my group, so I prepared some notes on our project:
UCD ELECTIVES
Group Project 17
1. How you formulated the idea for your App/Mashup?
- Met as a group to discuss possible ideas. Most ideas were to do with UCD as we wanted the app to solve an information problem that was relevant to us all
- Since the group was primarily made up of elective members, the topic of electives was very relevant, especially with the wide choice available
- Decided to make an app which would make it easier to choose an elective based on various factors
2. Name of the App and how the App/Mashup solves an existing Information Problem?
→ UCD Electives
It can be difficult to try and choose a suitable elective. Many people pick electives for different reasons, some picking for interest and others for something less challenging/demanding and relatively simple. While there is suitable information on electives online, we found that it could be difficult to navigate, especially for newcomers to UCD. We decided that it would be interesting to have a smartphone App which would incorporate this information, while also adding new search filters and an App rating system, which would rely on user involvement.
3. Difficulties encountered or overcome designing/implementing the App/Mashup?
We had some difficulties in trying to decide how to design our app interface to make it most convenient to use. We wanted to include a variety of search filters, such as App ratings, subjects, levels, times and whether there was an end of year exam or group-work involved.We tried a few different options before deciding on our existing layout of ****. Still in a stage of app development.. Difficulties inputting all the information and creating a database.
4. How the App/Mashup will work?
The App will work as a searchable information store which will incorporate user involvement through a group rating system. Students will be able to search for electives by level, subject, rating, time and day, and whether the module involves group-work or an end of year exam.
Having all the information in one place and giving more information. It allows users to search for a suitable elective for them based on different criteria
5. What Social Media you are using to market your App/Mashup?
We are going to make a screencast video and then share this primarily through Facebook to market our app as it should reach many UCD students if shared on each of our individual profiles. We decided on using a screencast video as we felt it would easily illustrate how the app may be used and navigated.
Week 11
The topic of Week 11's class was Ethics. We also had some readings to do involving Social Media Trends, and our readings introduced us to the feature of using Google Trends. Google Trends allows you to view particular trends in searching and social media by date and area. You can also search particular search terms to view a graph and timeline of how frequently that term was searched, and its general trend over time. There were two Dailymail articles involving Wikipedia, one which dealt with Wikipedia restricting editing access to pages of US electoral candidates, and the other with a Wikipedia hoax describing a fictional war which went unchecked by Wikipedia for 5 years. I also watched an interesting TED talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia.
We also had our final end of year Quiz which accounted for 20% of the module on Friday at 9am of Week 11.
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