Project Members

Tanya Lisle - 200124871

Gabrielle Carson - 200116881

Lorne McIntosh

Andy Huang - 200119452

Andrew Wong - 200128926

Project Goal

To build a social network between SFU Surrey students and see if any connections emerge between projects such as plagiarism or influences. GIven time, this wiki could act as a means to showcase SFU Surrey work to future students as an example of what has been accomplished or simply as a springboard for current students to draw ideas from.

Methodology

We will be asking SFU Surrey students to post their projects onto a wiki and we will observe the wiki over time. In time, we hope to compile a full assortment of projects created by the students over the years and attempt to determine silimarities and differences between projects done in the same class or by the same students.

Technology

We will be using a wiki for this project.

http://wiki.chiisana.net

IAT 401 TA, Vicki Moulder, Comments 09/28/06

I looked through the “The Pool” WIKI and found myself wanting to make comments and connections. For example I know the art director for “The Parade of Lost Souls” and they would love to have the Puppet as a performance. Or another project I know of is looking for a person to design an interactive Electronic Quilt which matches Tanya’s Extravagent Corpse project.

What I’m trying to say is – will there be a place for people to post or propose projects.

I had no idea there was a room called “The Pool” is that true?

IAT 401 Niranjan Rajah, Comments 09/28/06

This project has great potential as a self organizing system – but only if you build in some lower order rules – you could use this as a test bed for user tagging like Flicker or for a more complex folksonomy

http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

I do think this is the critical/theoretical/ discursive context for this project.

Gabrielle Carson, Updates 10/05/06

Students of SFU Surrey have joined and added their own projects, classes and profiles to The Pool. Each project has a short description of the project, the year and which class it was made in and a list of participants of the project as well as other information (pictures, influences, technologies, links etc.) The names in the project page link to profile pages of each student who has worked on the project. Each profile has links to all the projects the student has worked on. The project page also links to the class page in which the project was created and the class page has links to all the projects created in that class. Visually:

Project

---> Student

---> Student

---> Student etc.

---> Class

Student

---> Project

---> Project

---> Project etc.

Class

---> Project

---> Project

---> Project etc.

As part one of our project (although not officially) we have advertised our project around the SFU Surrey campus in order to encourage students to join The Pool. As of right now, We are currently working on a way to incorporate tagging into The Pool in the hopes of creating clustering of projects if someone wants to search for similar types of projects such as Web based applications.

Gabrielle Carson, Updates 10/09/06

Members of the wiki are now able to add Categories to their projects which allows for clustering and search for similar types of projects.