Designing large-scale communityware: a case study in the Public Opinion Channel

Author

FUKUHARA, Tomohiro ; CHIKAMA, Masaki ; Nishida, Toyoaki

Author_Institution

Synsophy Project, Commun. Res. Lab., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

125

Abstract

A case study of the design of large-scale communityware called Public Opinion Channel (POC) in a field-test is described. POC is a notion of a community broadcasting system that allows community members to exchange opinions. We report design issues of POC, and community management and analysis issues in the field-test which about 450 households attended. In the design discussion, we describe details of data structure, architecture, and protocols of POC. In the management and analysis discussion, we describe engineering and human effort to prepare log analysis tools, initial contents, and regulations.

Keywords

client-server systems; data structures; groupware; software architecture; Public Opinion Channel; architecture; community analysis; community broadcasting system; community management; data structure; engineering effort; human effort; large-scale communityware design; log analysis tools; protocols; regulation; Broadcasting; Computer aided software engineering; Data structures; Design engineering; Information science; Large-scale systems; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Protocols; Prototypes; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge Media Networking, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1778-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KMN.2002.1115173

Filename

1115173