基於社群網路之共同事件相簿呈現

Abstract

現實世界裡，一個事件的發生通常會有許多個參與者。參與者們可能都會在事件發生的過程裡用自己的角度拍攝照片，事後這些照片成為獨立的相簿，而這些相簿的集合就被稱為共同事件相簿。共同事件相簿的生命週期與一般相簿極為不同，透過田野調查，我發現目前沒有適當的機制可以協助共同事件相簿之收集、整理、瀏覽以及分享。 透過使用者訪談，我發現而共同事件相簿，不僅僅可以從多個面向來完整描述發生的事件之外；由於共同事件相簿必為多人參與的事件，因此，共同事件相簿同時也表徵了社交活動。因此，視覺化共同事件相簿與事件參與者之間的關係可以提供使用者從另一個面相來看其所屬的社群網路，並且提供使用者一個更容易更新社群活動的介面。 有鑑於共同事件相簿為使用者的潛在需求，以及所提供的整合訊息可充分幫助到使用者。因此，本篇論文實作了一個基於社群網路之上的相簿整合軟體服務--社群相簿（Social Album）。透過社群相簿，使用者除了可以瀏覽共同事件相簿（co-event albums）外，還可以透過視覺化的介面，瞭解參與共同事件相簿的朋友的活動狀況（Social Activity）。

In this thesis, I design a novel method by utilizing an existed social network to merge the photos in the co-event albums, which are created by different users who attended the same event. The prototype system, Social Album, is implemented on Facebook to realize the concept. By visualizing the co-event relationship through the co-event albums in the indexing view, the social relationship among friends can be easily understood and traced. Before designing the Social Album, I first conducted a field study and interviews to extract the design guidelines by observing users’ using behaviors of the web albums services. The novel visualization method is then proposed by adopting the railway metaphor to utilize the lines to represent individuals and nodes to represent the albums (activities) in the indexing view. A technique of merging related co-event albums in one merged album is also developed by not only considering albums’ information about time, location, and participants, but also the information of the photos’ order and color in the browsing view. Finally, a user study is conducted in a small group of users to retrieve the users’ feedbacks for further iterative design.