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Authors:
Tareq Ahram
Waldemar Karwowski
Keywords: social modeling; decision support systems; behavioral modeling
Abstract:
The advent and adoption of internet-based social networking has significantly altered our daily lives. The educational community has taken notice of the positive aspects of social networking such as creation of blogs and to support groups of system designers going through the same challenges and difficulties. This paper introduces a social networking framework for collaborative education, design and modeling of the next generation of smarter products and services. Human behavior modeling in social networking application aims to ensure that human considerations for learners and designers have a prominent place in the integrated design and development of sustainable, smarter products throughout the total system lifecycle. Social networks blend self-directed learning and prescribed, existing information. The self-directed element creates interest within a learner and the ability to access existing information facilitates its transfer, and eventual retention of knowledge acquired. In conclusion, this research paper introduces the application of social-networking to design and modeling of products and services and provides a novel technology for facilitating the understanding of complex human behavior and to better identify crucial user needs.
Pages: 51 to 57
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: October 21, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2326-9294
ISBN: 978-1-61208-228-8
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from October 21, 2012 to October 26, 2012