Collaborative and Social Computing

Instructor

David McDonald
Office: MGH 330R
Email: dwmc@uw.edu

	Office Hours:	by appointment

Description

Seminar on the design of collaborative and social computing systems. Introduces theories for analyzing collaboration both on-line and face-to-face. Student apply a theoretical perspective through the design of a social or collaborative application. Application domains include blogging, tagging, on-line communities, social recommending, ubiquitous computing, and collaboration in domestic settings.

		Wednesday	3:30-5:20	MGH 074
		Friday	3:30-5:20	MGH 074

Course Organization

The course is structured as a seminar that will include a set of social computing themes. Students will be expected to read and be prepared to discuss all of the readings for each week. Readings will be made available through the course website.

Defining Social Computing - Weeks 1-2
Studying and Analyzing Social Computing - Weeks 3-6
Models for Social Computing - Weeks 7-9
Project Presentations - Week 10, Finals Week

Project

A significant portion of this course is comprised of a course project. The project could either be the design and implementation of a novel social computing system or an in-depth study of some existing social computing system. The project will culminate in both a required presentation and a publishable or near publishable quality paper.

Project Proposal - Due: Week 3, Friday January 25, 2013
Initial Design Review/Data Collection Review - Due: Week 5, Friday February 8, 2013
Working Prototype/Preliminary Analysis - Due: Week 8, Friday March 1, 2013
Final Presentations - Week 10, Wednesday & Friday March 13 & 15, 2013
Final Project Reports - Due: Finals Week, Wednesday March 20, 2013

Grading

The grading for the course will consist of several assignments, participation through discussion and presentation of papers, and a course project.

	Reading Reviews	30%
	Participation	20%
	Project	50%

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