Catalysing the Development of a Conference Workspace

IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference

et al. 2010

Abstract-Social media services have recently become well known especially among young people [1]. In social networking sites a user can participate intensively in activities in the service. To support collaborative study at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and also to provide social networking tools for students especially at the beginning their studies, the development TUT's own social network site was begun in spring 2008. To make the system popular among students, developers and researchers at the Department of Mathematics and Hypermedia Laboratory at TUT designed interventions for fall 2009 when the semester began and new students started their studies. The earlier research [2] revealed numerous motivating aspects that should be somehow included in a study oriented social networking site. This paper will describe the research results of interventions to motivate students to use a social networking site in the context of studies. The results will show that such an environment with social aspects connected to studying and study life on various levels is a means of enhancing studies and basically a necessary tool, especially for students in the early phase of their studies in a new university. The motivation should be further encouraged by the system itself when it relies on students' own voluntary activity. Moreover, the intensive actions of developers, researchers and administrators can be used as tools in directing network activity development.

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social media enhanced studying and learning in higher education

Silius

Miilumäki

IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference

et al. 2010

“…It is also convenient that titles of songs listened in Last.fm can be imported to TUT Circle." (12)  It was motivating to follow friends" events, content and profile information.…”

Section:  Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(e.g. Huhtamäki, Nykänen & Salonen, 2009) Another target of SNA analysis together with proper visualizations is to guide network development. The interactive SNA report containing a sociomatrix, SNA figures such as user centrality and prestige (e.g.…”

Section:  Further Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Students’ motivations for social media enhanced studying and learning

Silius

Miilumäki

Knowledge Management &Amp; E-Learning: An International Journal

et al. 2010

Solutions of social media enhanced learning are widely studied in Hypermedia Laboratory at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). In recent years Web 2.0 based social media services (e.g., Facebook®, LinkedIn®, Last.fm®, etc.) have become popular, especially among young people. Based on this phenomenon TUT Hypermedia researchers have developed a social networking site for TUT freshmen aiming to provide convenient tools for interaction and study support. The first idea was to offer a free-of-charge social web site in the context of learning Basic Engineering Mathematics at TUT. This was thought to be an efficient tool to get new students studies off to a good start as mathematics courses play a significant role. However, the prediction failed, which caused us to study students’ motivations for social network site usage in the study context. This paper describes research conducted in 2009. Moreover, a description of subsequent measures accomplished (e.g., web site development and social network analysis) at TUT is included.

“…In recent years, conferences have adopted ways of integrating for instance social media-related approaches for the purpose of the above activities, and related research has been published on the generic topic of conference co-creational activities [e.g. 21,16,25,31,15] and related benefits. For instance Grimnes [21] sums up the various needs of conference participants, such as tagging the conference content and talks, as well as browsing effectively the conference contents.…”

Section: Social Media and Twitter In Co-organization Of Conferences 2mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The outputs included animations to demonstrate the evolution of IRIS co-authorship and the diffusion of terms in IRIS community. Second, the study of Huhtamäki et al [25] provides an example of employing information visualization in conferences for a data-driven development of online conference workspaces, supporting conference delegates before, during and after the conference. They conclude on the basis of their case study that the dynamics of the conference workspace usage can be better understood by both tracking and visualization of the usage, and thus, insight can be provided e.g.…”

Section: Conference Data Visualization and Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information visualization of Twitter data for co-organizing conferences

Jussila

Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

Kärkkäinen

et al. 2013

Self Cite

The aim of this research is to explore what kinds of insights information visualization of social media data can provide for coorganizing conferences. Our paper focuses on Twitter in 'duringconference' use. We present a case study based on CMAD2013 conference and on the tweet traffic during the conference day. We applied the process of data-driven visual network analysis for providing insights on Twitter use during CMAD2013 conference day. By analyzing the network of conference participants and the conference's discussion topics, we were able to identify e.g. influential conference delegates, most interesting presentations and discussions, similarities between interests of the conference participants, and several development and information needs of conference co-organization derived from the information visualizations, which have implications for the planning and coorganizing of conferences, as well as for Twitter use in communicating during conferences.