Course on Social Software Systems in cooperation with IBM Research Almaden
Whether you are bookmarking web sites with
del.icio.us, sharing your vacation photos on
flickr or maintaining your personal profile on
facebook -- you are interacting with a
social software system.
The objective of this course is to explore the world of social software systems across the software stack - focusing on the end user value proposition, the user interaction and the system aspects. We will analyze, by studying practical examples, how these systems work and what value they offer to the individual participants and the nature of the community value they provide. We will explore how this trend has implications beyond the consumer world and is starting to offer similar advantages to large, distributed companies. We will also analyze recent platform trends of large-scale, social software systems such as
facebook or
salesforce.com. Along these lines, we provide introductions to issues of empirical research in this field and to social network analysis.
Dr. Stefan Nusser spent the last twelve years with
IBM in various positions in research and software development, focusing on a variety of topics from digital media, digital rights management to more recently web 2.0, collaborative applications and social software. In his current role as Research Staff Member and Senior Manager of the User Systems and Experience Research (USER) group at the
IBM Almaden Research Center, Stefan leads an interdisciplinary team of 30 researchers in the area of Human-Computer Interaction.
Additional information
- See the course entry in the university calendar.
- Course dates: April 20 - April 24, 2009 (course enrolment till April 17).
- Course type: You can have it credited as either ...
- VK 5 in the SBWL Wirtschaftsinformatik
- VK 3 in the IT-Spezialisierung Neue Medien
- The course is also available for WU Vienna incoming exchange students.
- Details are to be announced in the course's Learn@WU area (for registered students only).
