Die Nutzung des Gefällt mir-Buttons auf Organisationsprofilen : eine quantitative Studie zur Erfassung der Nutzungsmotive und des Verlaufs von Gefällt mir-Verknüpfungen zwischen Usern und Organisationen im Online-Netzwerk Facebook

Die Nutzung des Like-Buttons wurde bisher nur oberflächlich und vor allem auf den US-Raum begrenzt erforscht. Dabei lag der Fokus ausschließlich auf wirtschaftlich orientierten Unternehmen und dem monetären Wert, den ein Fan für dieses hat. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird eine erweiterte Perspektive gewählt. Aus Sicht deutschsprachiger Nutzer wird erforscht, welche Motive und Bedürfnisse eine Person dazu veranlassen, sich freiwillig per Gefällt-mir zu verknüpfen. Hierzu wird der Uses and Gratifications-Ansatz herangezogen. Es stehen nicht Unternehmen, sondern generell alle Formen von Organisationen im Fokus. Gleichzeitig wird untersucht, wie diese Beziehungen verlaufen: Welche Erwartungen stellen Fans? Welche Handlungen nehmen sie wie häufig vor und welchen Effekt hat eine Fanbeziehung auf die Einstellung eines Nutzers gegenüber einer Organisation? Die Motive hinter der Nutzung des Gefällt mir-Buttons sind umfangreicher, als es bisherige Forschung vermuten ließ. Fans wollen informiert werden, sie wollen ihr Gefallen schnell und einfach bekunden und sich durch die Verknüpfung selbst darstellen. Weniger wichtig, aber dennoch von Relevanz sind die Motive der Partizipation und Unterstützung, der Empfehlung, der Vorteilssuche, der Unterhaltung sowie der Netzwerkerweiterung und Gruppenzugehörigkeit. Die Verwendung des Like-Buttons dient somit der Befriedigung einer ganzen Reihe von Nutzungsbedürfnissen. Der Verlauf der Beziehungen zwischen Organisationen und Usern ist eher von Passivität geprägt. Fans wollen zwar informiert werden und stellen konkrete Ansprüche an die Art und Form von Organisationsmeldungen, sie wollen aber nur selten wirklich direkt mit einem Unternehmen, einem Verein o.ä. interagieren. Langweilen die Meldungen einer Organisation, werden zu viele oder nicht relevante Informationen an die Fans weitergeben, zögern diese nicht, eine Verknüpfung zu beenden. Ein Effekt der Fanschaft auf die Einstellung von Nutzern gegenüber der jeweiligen Organisation konnte nur bedingt festgestellt werden. Letztere zieht einen Gewinn nicht aus einer erhöhten Ausgabebereitschaft seiner Fans, sondern aus deren stärkerer Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber Organisationsmeldungen.

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Generating Flash files of Your Lectures: Good Practice Strategies Helping Students Engage with Their Learning

Our students come from diverse backgrounds. They need flexibility in their learning. First year students tend to worry when they miss lectures or part of lectures. Having the lecture as an on line resource allows students to miss a lecture without stressing about it and to be more relaxed in the lecture, knowing that anything they may miss will be available later. The resource: The Windows based program from Blueberry Software (not Blackberry!) - BB Flashback - allows the simultaneous recording of the computer screen together with the audio, as well as Webcam recording. Editing capabilities include adding pause buttons, graphics and text to the file before exporting it in a flash file. Any diagrams drawn on the board or shown via visualiser can be photographed and easily incorporated. The audio from the file can be extracted if required to be posted as podcast. Exporting modes other than Flash are also available, allowing vodcasting if you wish. What you will need: - the recording software: it can be installed on the lecture hall computer just prior to lecture if needed - a computer: either the ones in lecture halls, especially if fitted with audio recording, or a laptop (I have used audio recording via Bluetooth for mobility). Feedback from students has been positive and will be presented on the poster.

A study and comparison of multimedia Web searching : 1997-2006

Searching for multimedia is an important activity for users of Web search engines. Studying user's interactions with Web search engine multimedia buttons, including image, audio, and video, is important for the development of multimedia Web search systems. This article provides results from a Weblog analysis study of multimedia Web searching by Dogpile users in 2006. The study analyzes the (a) duration, size, and structure of Web search queries and sessions; (b) user demographics; (c) most popular multimedia Web searching terms; and (d) use of advanced Web search techniques including Boolean and natural language. The current study findings are compared with results from previous multimedia Web searching studies. The key findings are: (a) Since 1997, image search consistently is the dominant media type searched followed by audio and video; (b) multimedia search duration is still short (>50% of searching episodes are <1 min), using few search terms; (c) many multimedia searches are for information about people, especially in audio search; and (d) multimedia search has begun to shift from entertainment to other categories such as medical, sports, and technology (based on the most repeated terms). Implications for design of Web multimedia search engines are discussed.

The Spartan-3E Tutorial 1 : Introduction to FPGA Programming, Version 1.0

This tutorial is designed to help new users become familiar with using the Spartan-3E board. The tutorial steps through the following: writing a small program in VHDL which carries out simple combinational logic; connecting the program inputs and outputs to the switches, buttons and LEDs on the Spartan-3E board; and downloading the program to the Spartan-3E board using the Project Navigator software.

The Spartan-3E Tutorial 2 : Introduction to using the PicoBlaze Microcontroller Version 1.0

This tutorial is designed to help new users become familiar with using the PicoBlaze microcontroller with the Spartan-3E board. The tutorial gives a brief introduction to the PicoBlaze microcontroller, and then steps through the following: - Writing a small PicoBlaze assembly language (.psm) file, and stepping through the process of assembling the .psm file using KCPSM3; - Writing a top level VHDL module to connect the PicoBlaze microcontroller (KCPSM3 component) and the program ROM, and to connect the required input and output ports; - Connecting the top level module inputs and outputs to the switches, buttons and LEDs on the Spartan-3E board; - Downloading the program to the Spartan-3E board using the Project Navigator software.

Vote with your feet : hyperlocal polling for urban screens

Vote with Your Feet is a hyperlocal polling tool for urban screens that lets users express their opinion on current affairs. Similar to vox populi interviews on TV, it is meant to reflect the mindset of the community and its diversity. It shows one Yes/No question at a time and lets the user vote by stepping with their foot on one of two physical buttons. By not only displaying the local but also national results (taken from newspaper polls or TV news), it creates a sense of place and can spark offline conversations as well as making people think about their own opinion. As a tangible media installation that bridges physical and digital urban layers, the project empowers citizens and facilitates a bottom-up approach in terms of stimulating opinions and decision making (rather than broadcasting or automating). In a second iteration of the design, we want to encourage users to submit their own questions.

Local Commons : communicating local issues through place-based interventions

Due to the numerous possibilities of voicing concerns and the flood of data we are exposed to, local issues are at a risk of being overlooked. Following a research agenda proposed by Foth et al. (2013), this thesis explored the possible contributions of situated digital and tangible media for communicating local issues. Making use of the location of an issue could thereby not only allow to reach the targeted audience but also for a deeper involvement of citizens. Through the development of a design intervention in public space, called Local Commons, the benefits of this approach were investigated. Therefore, the intervention combined digital and tangible media in order to engage the public to contribute and debate different perspectives on a given local issue. The interaction with the intervention was thereby twofold. First, the intervention invited the audience to submit images of their perspectives on the issue, which were displayed on a public screen. Via tangible buttons in front of the screen, the audience then had the possibility to agree or disagree to the displayed perspectives, creating a space for deliberation. In a field study, the concept was subsequently tested and evaluated. The results of this study, although not generalisable, supported the chosen approach of this thesis.

Vote with your feet : hyperlocal public polling for urban screens

Technological advances have led to an ongoing spread of public displays in urban areas. However, they still mostly show passive content such as commercials and digital signage. Researchers took notice of their potential to spark situated civic discourse in public space and have begun working on interactive public display applications. Attracting people’s attention and providing a low barrier for user participation have been identified as major challenges in their design. This thesis presents Vote With Your Feet, a hyperlocal public polling tool for urban screens allowing users to express their opinions. Similar to vox populi interviews on TV or polls on news websites, the tool is meant to reflect the mindset of the community on topics such as current affairs, cultural identity and local matters. It shows one Yes/No question at a time and enables users to vote by stepping on one of two tangible buttons on the ground. This user interface was introduced to attract people’s attention and to lower participation barriers. Vote With Your Feet was informed by a user-centred design approach that included a focus group, expert interviews and extensive preliminary user studies in the wild. Deployed at a bus stop, Vote With Your Feet was evaluated in a field study over the course of several days. Observations of people and interviews with 30 participants revealed that the novel interaction technology was perceived as inviting and that Vote With Your Feet can spark discussions among co-located people.

Vote with your feet : local community polling on urban screens

Falling prices have led to an ongoing spread of public displays in urban areas. Still, they mostly show passive content such as commercials and digital signage. At the same time, technological advances have enabled the creation of interactive displays potentially increasing their attractiveness for the audience, e.g. through providing a platform for civic discourse. This poses considerable challenges, since displays need to communicate the opportunity to engage, motivate the audience to do so, and be easy to use. In this paper we present Vote With Your Feet, a hyperlocal public polling tool for urban screens allowing users to express their opinions. Similar to vox populi interviews on TV or polls on news websites, the tool is meant to reflect the mindset of the community on topics such as current affairs, cultural identity and local matters. It is novel in that it focuses on a situated civic discourse and provides a tangible user interface, tackling the mentioned challenges. It shows one Yes/No question at a time and enables users to vote by stepping on one of two tangible buttons on the ground. This user interface was introduced to attract people’s attention and to lower participation barriers. Our field study showed that Vote With Your Feet is perceived as inviting and that it can spark discussions among co-located people.