10 Ways to make your Semantic App. addictive – Revisited
People after my own heart! Let’s drop all the pretense! We want people to use our apps to the exclusion of other apps. We want people to give up sleep to use our apps! We want people to call in sick, forget to eat, forget to put out the cat…, sorry, got carried away. 😉
Seriously, creating apps that people “buy into” is critical for the success of any app and no less so for semantic apps.
The less colorful summary about the workshop says:
In many application scenarios useful semantic content can hardly be created (fully) automatically, but motivating people to become an active part of this endeavor is still an art more than a science. In this tutorial we will look into fundamental design issues of semantic-content authoring technology – and of the applications deploying such technology – in order to find out which incentives speak to people to become engaged with the Semantic Web, and to determine the ways these incentives can be transferred into technology design. We will present how methods and techniques from areas as diverse as participation management, usability engineering, mechanism design, social computing, and game mechanics can be jointly applied to analyze semantically enabled applications, and subsequently design incentives-compatible variants thereof. The discussion will be framed by three case studies on the topics of enterprise knowledge management, media and entertainment, and IT ecosystems, in which combinations of these methods and techniques has led to increased user participation in creating useful semantic descriptions of various types of digital resources – text documents, images, videos and Web services and APIs. Furthermore, we will revisit the best practices and guidelines that have been at the core of an earlier version of this tutorial at the previous edition of the ISWC in 2010, following the empirical findings and insights gained during the operation of the three case studies just mentioned. These guidelines provide IT developers with a baseline to create technology and end-user applications that are not just functional, but facilitate and encourage user participation that supports the further development of the Semantic Web.
Well, they can say: “…facilitate and encourage user participation…” but I’m in favor of addition. 😉
BTW, notice the Revisited in the title?
You can see the slides from last year, 10 Ways to make your Semantic App. addictive, while you are waiting for this year’s workshop. (I am searching for videos but so far have come up empty. Maybe the organizers can film the presentations this year?)
Date: October 23 or 24, half day
Place: Bonn, Germany, Maritim Bonn