Promoting social network awareness: A social network monitoring system

Cadima, Rita; Ferreira, Carlos; Monguet, Josep; Ojeda, Jordi; Fernandez, Joaquin

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To increase communication and collaboration opportunities, members of a community must be aware of the social networks that exist within that community. This paper describes a social network monitoring system - the KIWI system - that enables users to register their interactions and visualize their social networks. The system was implemented in a distributed research community and the results have shown that KIWI facilitates collecting information about social interactions. Furthermore, the visualization of the social networks, given as feedback, appeared to have a positive impact on the group, augmenting their social network awareness.

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Awareness Social networks Distributed learning environments Multimedia/hypermedia systems

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Rita Cadima, Carlos Ferreira, Josep Monguet, Jordi Ojeda, Joaquin Fernandez, Promoting social network awareness: A social network monitoring system, Computers & Education, Volume 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1233-1240, ISSN 0360-1315, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2009.11.009.