Post by account_disabled on Feb 25, 2024 11:06:56 GMT
To describe the ways in which social networks become part of the user's daily activities I will once again rely on the guide THEORETICAL ELEMENTS FOR THE DESIGN OF SOCIAL NETWORKS by Gianandrea Giacoma and Davide Casali (which I thank enormously for making available under license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0). Making a simplification for explanatory purposes, we can assume that each of us's day is defined according to a flow of small and large activities in sequence (A > B > C > ...) which are established according to some different hierarchies of values: importance, interest , duty, ease, etc. This is the daily activity flow . The daily flow of activities is important because it is a defined period of time within which various activities compete to be performed and the person will therefore have to choose what is most important to do among various alternatives: time is limited, while activities are not. The way in which our project manages to fit into a person's daily flow of activities is therefore a crucial element in the design of a social network.
Starting from the premise that there are functional needs to be Chinese Student Phone Number List satisfied, we must also make sure that it is natural for people to insert this type of tool into their days. We therefore identify four primary indices that can lead a person to give priority to an activity 2. Lightness : activity X is so easy to do that a little interest is enough to steal a few moments from other adjacent activities. 3. Location : activity X is easier to do after doing activity A, because it is spatially or mentally inherent. 4. Effectiveness : activity X is more useful in achieving the goal than other activities (X', The flow is a factor that must be correctly balanced in relation to the type of social network you want to create: • In the case of a site like MySpace the person 'chooses' to frequent that virtual space because at a certain point it has relevance within of one's life and therefore assigns it sufficient priority to emerge among the commitments. For example, at a certain point he could make it the home page of his web browsing.
In the case of a site like Google Docs, the person uses the tool because they need to write collaborative content and it is therefore an effective tool for doing so. He will therefore not visit the site continuously as he would on MySpace but only when he has something to add or read. • In the case of LinkedIn, the user will visit the site only when he finds himself in a situation where he remembers the site and goes to visit it, perhaps taking the opportunity to update his data. • In the case of Flickr the user will visit the site perhaps even habitually to see what his friends or contacts are doing at that moment, or what new photo they have posted. In each of these situations we can imagine that the person will have evaluated the four indices above and will have modified their daily flow of activities accordingly, stealing time from other activities that were not so relevant. This happens both for routine activities and for planned ones and for extemporaneous ones.
Starting from the premise that there are functional needs to be Chinese Student Phone Number List satisfied, we must also make sure that it is natural for people to insert this type of tool into their days. We therefore identify four primary indices that can lead a person to give priority to an activity 2. Lightness : activity X is so easy to do that a little interest is enough to steal a few moments from other adjacent activities. 3. Location : activity X is easier to do after doing activity A, because it is spatially or mentally inherent. 4. Effectiveness : activity X is more useful in achieving the goal than other activities (X', The flow is a factor that must be correctly balanced in relation to the type of social network you want to create: • In the case of a site like MySpace the person 'chooses' to frequent that virtual space because at a certain point it has relevance within of one's life and therefore assigns it sufficient priority to emerge among the commitments. For example, at a certain point he could make it the home page of his web browsing.
In the case of a site like Google Docs, the person uses the tool because they need to write collaborative content and it is therefore an effective tool for doing so. He will therefore not visit the site continuously as he would on MySpace but only when he has something to add or read. • In the case of LinkedIn, the user will visit the site only when he finds himself in a situation where he remembers the site and goes to visit it, perhaps taking the opportunity to update his data. • In the case of Flickr the user will visit the site perhaps even habitually to see what his friends or contacts are doing at that moment, or what new photo they have posted. In each of these situations we can imagine that the person will have evaluated the four indices above and will have modified their daily flow of activities accordingly, stealing time from other activities that were not so relevant. This happens both for routine activities and for planned ones and for extemporaneous ones.