Territory Map
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Point of View
This project aims to identify design opportunities for web-based products and services that empower young adults and teenagers to engage in creative activities that stimulate collaboration and strengthen their social agency. This project also aims to understand their needs and motivations as well as their current use of networking technology for designing a product that facilitates meaningful interaction in the context of the Semantic Web. One of the mayor challenges is to create an application or a service can exploit the value of the ubicomp and semantic applications.
Pursued Benefits
- empower teenagers to express their points of views by leveraging interactions that can help them negotiate with others and affect/build their immediate surroundings.
- raise awareness of their community and portray themselves in relation to it.
- help them discover new opportunities for relating with their immediate community.
- lowering the stress of information anxiety.
Territory Map
- People: Help teens see the consequence of their action
- find yourself in relationships with others
- understand your own context
- Interaction: Develop an interaction that supports plasticity in collaborative communication.
- The conflicting relation between reality and personal assumtive worlds
- tools for formalization
- language valid only within small community of peers (also, collaborative filtering)
- allow fuzzy logic, unfinished thoughts... knowledge in its raw state
- Technology: Leverage a technology to convey in a simple way the complexity of relationships without confusion
- visualize the semantic web (too many dimentions?)
- how to create an interaction that will work as a pivot betwwen human interest and the system that needs well defined metadata
Design Opportunity
Although the computer as a gateway for the web has becomed an indispensable resource for teenagers –specially in the academic arena– it hasn't offered it's true potential. The Semantic Web still remains as a promise, developers exploring this area haven't designed a widely understood and useful application yet; it's true potential remains only comprehensible for the experts. On the meantime, Web 2.0 applications are quickly and supperficially fullfilling the promise of bringing power for the people.
Users are seeing all this cool, flexible new Web 2.0 stuff, and it’s making the SW look even more complex, rigid and unnecessary. Both technologies appear similar to the outside world - share and aggregate data – but Web 2.0 has a pretty interface, and is here and now. And thus the (finite) budgets of organisations are being spent on wikis and blogs, rather than RDF database converters. Tim O'Reilly
The design opportunity lies in the possibility of creating an application that the SW perception from a it appart from a comprehensive and elemental language for providing users with the building blocks for this new structure. This should imply deep understanding of visual representations for providing the user with a trasnparent
