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Alex Gerstein & Scott Gladstone
Digital Scholarship Research Journal
Introduce & prompt unsubscribed content (https://github.com/alexgerstein/Sourcemash/issues/74)
Alex: Curation To subversively introduce articles to a user from feeds that he/she is not subscribed to & prompt the user to subscribe to those feeds if they positively (e.g. upvote) interact with the introduced content.
Voting (https://github.com/alexgerstein/Sourcemash/issues/75)
Scott: Infrastructure development To provide users with a familiar mechanism to positively (upvote) and negatively (downvote) interact with content.
Reporting with MixPanel analytics (https://github.com/alexgerstein/Sourcemash/issues/76)
Alex & Scott: Infrastructure development, curation, collaboration To allow the developers to collect and observe information about user habits that can (and likely will) be reported to users as usage statistics on their Dashboard.
Future Issues
Mechanical Turk for user testing (https://github.com/alexgerstein/Sourcemash/issues/133)
This directly addresses the user feedback issue discussed in our Progress report and meeting, and we will likely pursue this route (or attempt to hire students we know as "free labor" in exchange for endless gratitude). Designing a UI/UX test framework -- or Human Intelligence Task (HIT) in Amazon Mechanical Turk terminology -- will be a useful exercise from both a developer and user perspective, and we will be pursuing this solution and/or its cheaper alternatives in the near future.
Feed statistics for users (https://github.com/alexgerstein/Sourcemash/issues/134)
By offering statistics to users that provide system-level information about feed subscriptions, voting, and read/unread item status, users can overcome the user-isolation barrier and gain a sense for how the app's community is interacting with available content. Given that individuals are often influenced by the decisions of others, providing information and tracking users' response to that information offers the developers an interesting analytic to observe.
All projects will include a research journal (or diary, if you prefer) in which you record all sources of material, names and contributions of any collaborators, and the reasoning behind decisions on what to analyze and how to analyze it. The journal may be no less than 1 paragraph and no more than 1 page. Submit the research journal to this assignment in txt, doc, docx, or pdf.