HeaderSIS.jpg

Difference between revisions of "IS480 Team wiki: 2011T1 TheTalkies"

From IS480
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 1: Line 1:
 
== TheTalkies' Team Members ==
 
== TheTalkies' Team Members ==
 +
 +
[[Image:3DSocializer_Logov1.jpg‎‎‎|thumb|200|right]]
  
 
*Aung Myint Thein [mailto:mtaung.2008@sis.smu.edu.sg]
 
*Aung Myint Thein [mailto:mtaung.2008@sis.smu.edu.sg]
Line 7: Line 9:
 
*Phyo Wint Wint Tun [mailto:phyo.tun.2009@sis.smu.edu.sg]
 
*Phyo Wint Wint Tun [mailto:phyo.tun.2009@sis.smu.edu.sg]
 
*Khaing Pwint Wah [mailto:pwkhaing.2008@sis.smu.edu.sg]
 
*Khaing Pwint Wah [mailto:pwkhaing.2008@sis.smu.edu.sg]
 
  
 
==Roles and Responsibilities==
 
==Roles and Responsibilities==

Revision as of 11:45, 22 July 2011

TheTalkies' Team Members

200
  • Aung Myint Thein [1]
  • Soe Thet Aung [2]
  • Kyaw Moe Hein [3]
  • Thandar Tun [4]
  • Phyo Wint Wint Tun [5]
  • Khaing Pwint Wah [6]

Roles and Responsibilities

MEMBER ROLE RESPONSIBILIIES
Aung Myint Thein Project Manager TBD
Soe Thet Aung System Administrator TBD
Khaing Pwint Wah Lead Tester & Marketing Director TBD
Kyaw Moe Hein Lead Designer TBD
Thandar Tun Database Designer TBD
Phyo Wint Wint Tun Lead Developer TBD


Supervisor

Prof Archan Misra

Project Overview

Project Description

Creating a fully customized social media dashboard on simplified 3D model of Singapore Management University categorizing tweets based on location and trending topics.


Motivation

Figure 1: Trends in Singapore
Figure 2: Changing trends location


Specific Location

SMU students and faculty members are sharing their thoughts and things happening around them by using various social media tools. Among them, twitter is the most popular tools. Twitter offers a social networking and microblogging service enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. If I want to see someone's tweets with real time updates, I have to "follow" them. "Following" is one-way-adding-friend method and the other side doesn't need to accept my following. Although twitter is pretty popular among students and faculty members, "following" has a very subtle disadvantage. If another student or faculty is not following me, he will not see my tweets even if we are in the same campus. Similarly, if I didn't follow a student, I won't see his tweets even if we are in the same classroom. Do we really need to follow over thousands of students and professors to get tweets from SMU campus? No, we don't want and we should not. Is it the end of what the most popular modern social networking tool capable of?


No! We believe the social media can do better than this. Our social media dashboard will be customized to capture all the tweets in SMU campus and show them on simplified 3D model. Students can see what others think about a particular course or faculty. Faculty can see what is happening around university. All of them doesn't need to follow or explode their following people list just to see things happening around SMU.


Related Trends

Twitter has a very interesting feature called "trends". If users from Singapore tweet about a topic (for example #F1) to a certain amount of times, that keyword is promoted into "trends" and it was shown on the twitter page as Figure 1. However, students are not interested in those random topics or trends happening in whole Singapore. We are more interested in trends happening in SMU. Can we change the setting? No, as we see in Figure 2, we can only change the country level or worldwide. Therefore, trends such as #SIS will never appear in Singapore trends. That is not what students want from social media.


We will not only capture the tweets around SMU campus but we will also analyze them and develop trends only related to SMU. For example, when students are tweets about #Steve in matriculation, we will make #Steve as trends. Moreover, we will create a list of possible keywords and use them when we capture the tweets too. For example, #SMUSIS, #SMUSOE, etc. So, it will make trends in our page more relevant and related to SMU.


Combining the specific localized tweets and relevant trends, our website will be one stop dashboard for students and faculty members to stay connect with people around them. Potential students can also see the culture and interaction of current students. Last but not least, the expertise from community can discuss and contribute to the trends and topics in SMU as well. All of them don't need to follow anyone. All the tweets in our web site are specifically localized for SMU and the trends are highly relevant and related to SMU as well.

Project Scope

1. Building simplified 3D model of Singapore Management University

We are going to build a simplified and block scale 3D model of Singapore Management University on which we will show the tweets and the trending topics.

2. Pulling relevant tweets searching by locations.

Using twitter API of searching tweets only around the campus, we will pull only the relevant tweets for our website. So, we will get all the tweets from students, faculty, and even community if they are tweeting in the campus and they enabled the geo-tagged feature.

3. Pulling relevant tweets searching by pre-assigned keywords. (#keyword in twitter convention)

To complement location search, we will also search tweets on pre-assigned keywords. We are going to list possible keywords in SMU campus as much as possible. By doing so, our application will not need to sacrifice for non-geo-tagged tweets.

4. Showing trending page for selection faculty.

When a user selects a faculty name, we will show the page with tweets which are located around the selected faculty and the tweets with related keywords. For example, when a user selects SIS faculty, the page will show all tweets located around SIS and with keywords IS480.

5. Showing trending page for selected keyword.

When a user selects a #keyword, we will show the page with tweets with the selected keyword.

6. Permanent trending page for #LostNFound keyword

In every trending page, there will be #LostNFound keyword and we will keep it permanent regardless of the selected faculty and keyword. We want to make students life easier by just tweeting when they lost or found some valuables. This can be one stop lost and found portal powered by social media technology.

7. Logged in users can tweet and discuss

Users with twitter credentials can log in, tweet and discuss on every above mentioned pages. When a user tweets on the keyword page, the keyword will be automatically added at the end of the tweet.

8. Not logged in users can tweet and discuss with nickname.

Users without twitter credentials will not be left out. They can tweet and discuss in the trending page just by filling nickname field. His tweets will not be broadcasted to twitter page but users can see those tweets through our website.

9. Logging for captured tweets, trends, anonymous users and source IP.

We will keep record for the captured tweets from search, trends, nicknames for anonymous users and source IP to certain time period.

10. Displaying statistics such as ranking of users and trends

Powered by the logging feature, we can display the statistics such as ranking of users, trends and most active faculty for a period of time.


Additional features

1. Mobile friendly interfaces using HTML 5 and javascript As people are consuming information on mobile phones, we want to make our website mobile friendly using HTML 5 and javascript if time permits.

Resources and references

  • Web space hosting – provided by client
  • Version control system (Git) – provided by client
  • Development tools (Notepad++, Eclipse) – free and open-sourced
  • 3D Modeling tools (Germanium 3D, 3D Max 2010) – provided by client and student licence
  • Bug tracker – free and open-sourced
  • Twitter API and etc. – online sources