Difference between revisions of "Framework Design"

Revision as of 19:13, 15 May 2014

New Features

1. Task Representation
2. Timeline Tracking
3. Progress Tracking
4. Explorer Navigation
5. Worklist
6. Timeline
7. User Tracking

Social Design Principles

Starting Communities

1. Create mechanisms to match people to activities
2. Highlight more active tasks
3. Inactive tasks should have „expected active times“

Encouraging Contributions through Motivation

1. Make it easy to see and track needed contributions
2. Ask specific people on tasks of interest to them
3. Simple tasks with challenging goals are easier to comply with
4. Specify deadlines for tasks, while leaving people in control
5. Give frequent feedback specific to the goals
6. Requests coming form leaders lead to more contributions
7. Publicize that others have complied with request
8. People are more willing to contribute: 1) when group is small, 2) when commited to the group, 3) when their contributions are unique

Encouraging Commitment

1. Cluster members to help them identify with the community
2. Give subgroups a name and a tagline
3. Put subgroups in the context of a larger group
4. Interdependent tasks increase commitment and reduce conflict