Overview
- Gives best practices, guidelines and standards for creating a usable online social networks
- Includes detailed critiques of existing social network platforms and applications while providing potential solutions usability evaluation techniques
- Aids in optimizing the social network design and experience
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN)
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Following the introduction of Myspace, Linkedin and Facebook, social networks have become part of people’s everyday life. New online social networks appear almost daily developed to attract the attention of Internet users. However, design and implementation standards and guidelines are often sacrificed for innovation resulting in unusable social networking platforms destined to be doomed. Within this context, the present book recommends a design and implementation methodology which will allow future social networking platform designers and developers to work in a scientifically systematic and sound manner to reach their goal.
The journey begins with the identification of the pursued objective of the social network and the potential participants. The presentation of various methods and techniques to collect the requirements of the intended user group of the social networking platform follows. Best practices, guidelines and standards that will facilitate the conceptual and physical design of the platform are portrayed. An analysis of advantages and limitations for existing implementation platforms and potential implementation techniques is subsequently offered to facilitate the selection of the most appropriate tool for the implementation of the online social networking website. Various representative visualization techniques are examined in order to enhance the visual representation of the social network participants. Various usability evaluation techniques are then presented to aid in the assessment of usability and improvement of the actual user experience. Finally, future trends in the design and use of social networks are presented.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
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Designing Phase
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Implementation Phase
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Evaluation Phase
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The Future
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Techniques and Tools for Designing an Online Social Network Platform
Authors: Panagiotis Karampelas
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0787-4
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Verlag Wien 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-0786-7Published: 14 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1946-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-0787-4Published: 13 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2190-5428
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5436
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Complex Systems, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems