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| Social Genius | ||
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| Author(s): | Robert Faludi |  |
| Instructor: | Shiffman, Daniel | |
| Class: | Intro to Comp Media | |
| URL: | http://itp.faludi.com/socialgenius | |
| Documents: | SocialGenius(JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | social networking, community, education, games | |
| Learn the names of everyone in your community with this engaging multimedia matching game. | ||
| Anyone can become a Social Genius using this elementary multimedia matching game. Match each name to a face, learning pronunciations as you go. Click a name tile and hear that person's name, properly pronounced. Communities, schools and businesses can use this database-driven helper to reduce individual isolation and promote social networks. | ||
| Background: | Each ITP student is faced with the task of memorizing the 250 names of their fellow students. This project was conceived as an attempt to ease that struggle, and especially to help those of us who aren't so good with names to open the door to communicating with as many students as possible. | |
| Audience: | The first step in getting to know the people around you is being able to call them by name. Many communities can benefit from improving social networking. Social Genius uses an easy-to-administer database of names and pictures that can be loaded with all the employees of a business, every student in a school or every resident of a local community. | |
| User Scenario: | A small number of faces and names are displayed. Select a first or last name and hear the proper pronunciation. Next, select the face that matches. Visual and audio feedback indicates whether the selection is correct. After all matches are cleared, the names and photos are displayed together, a time and error count is displayed, and the next round of face matches is ready to go. Repeated sessions teach everyone's names, creating stronger bonds between community members and improving group communication. | |
| Technical System Description: | Social Genius was created in Processing (processing.org), and will run in any web browser using Java, on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | Project development assistance was provided by Daniel Shifffman with helpful feedback from Clay Shirky, Red Burns, Mike Bukhin, Oren Ross and the Shiffman section of ICM. | |