KoKoo (Kontent Kooration) Evolving a Content Curation System To a comprehensive Editorial backend platform

The aim of this paper is to show how a prototypal system, designed as a general purpose stand-alone content curation tool could be evolved by following some alpha user's feedbacks to an comprehensive multi-service platform. The widespread diffusion of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets as long as the availability of mobile wideband services are increasing day by day the number of players in the ICT Market. In such a scenario, following the user needs becomes a critical issue, since it is likely for the users. to find products and services quite similar to the one you are offering, better fulfilling their needs. KOKOO (KOntent + KOO(Ù)ration) is a comprehensive platform made by Telecom Italia R&D division. It is a solution for solving the growing content provider needs to find new and most interesting news to offer to other users on different media, aggregating them in a personal journal with a similar look and feel. Chapter 2 will show the old system (presented also at Nem Summit 2012 showcase), chapter 3 will present user feedbacks and chapter 4 will show the new system and all of its aggregated services, stressing how this was designed by following user feedback

KoKoo (Kontent Kooration) Evolving a Content Curation System To a comprehensive Editorial backend platform

The aim of this paper is to show how a prototypal system, designed as a general purpose stand-alone content curation tool could be evolved by following some alpha user’s feedbacks to an comprehensive multi-service platform. The widespread diffusion of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets as long as the availability of mobile wideband services are increasing day by day the number of players in the ICT Market. In such a scenario, following the user needs becomes a critical issue, since it is likely for the users. to find products and services quite similar to the one you are offering, better fulfilling their needs. KOKOO (KOntent + KOO(Ù)ration) is a comprehensive platform made by Telecom Italia R&D division. It is a solution for solving the growing content provider needs to find new and most interesting news to offer to other users on different media, aggregating them in a personal journal with a similar look and feel. Chapter 2 will show the old system (presented also at Nem Summit 2012 showcase), chapter 3 will present user feedbacks and chapter 4 will show the new system and all of its aggregated services, stressing how this was designed by following user feedbacks

SOCIETY: a social reading application to join education and social network experience

Abstract. This paper describes a social reading application designed for education and school communities based on electronic book reading experience. Both design and evaluation followed a user centered approach in order to obtain a custom made application called SOCIETY, to be used by community based groups with similar reading interests, running both on IOS and Android System. A special emphasis was given on personal and social aspects in writing and sharing notes with the community groups and the "facebook or twitter" large community to better understand how that can improve the learning process. Beside showing a high interest on society@school app our trial evidenced the need to separate school community from wider social networks, a need which seems to be important for students. That stresses the importance of privacy management in school applications design, because students seem to be worried about sharing information and mixing school and social networks contexts

SOCIETY: a social reading application to join education and social network experience

Abstract. This paper describes a social reading application designed for education and school communities based on electronic book reading experience. Both design and evaluation followed a user centered approach in order to obtain a custom made application called SOCIETY, to be used by community based groups with similar reading interests, running both on IOS and Android System. A special emphasis was given on personal and social aspects in writing and sharing notes with the community groups and the “facebook or twitter” large community to better understand how that can improve the learning process. Beside showing a high interest on society@school app our trial evidenced the need to separate school community from wider social networks, a need which seems to be important for students. That stresses the importance of privacy management in school applications design, because students seem to be worried about sharing information and mixing school and social networks contexts

Il social reading a supporto dell'apprendimento anche per i ragazzi con disturbi specifici dell'apprendimento

La ricerca i cui risultati vengono riportati nel presente articolo, ha avuto come obiettivo la progettazione e lo sviluppo di un'applicazione per dispositivi mobili funzionale alla lettura condivisa e sociale: il "social reading". Nello studio è stata posta particolare attenzione alla personalizzazione e realizzazione di una serie di funzionalità per studenti con Disturbi Specifici dell'Apprendimento (DSA), funzionalità che si sono in realtà rivelate di interesse generale e utili per tutti gli studenti. Il contesto di riferimento da cui si è partiti è l'approccio costruttivista all'apprendimento che pone il soggetto che apprende al centro del processo formativo (Vygotsky, 1978), promuovendo l'apprendimento collaborativo e l'inclusione. Seguendo quest'approccio, la ricerca di Telecom Italia sta realizzando educ@TIon una piattaforma sperimentale di didattica digitale con l'obiettivo di fornire alle scuole una proposta software integrata, completa di applicazioni didattiche innovative - open source e modulari - e di facilitare l'adozione di "metodologie didattiche 2.0" (connettività, lavagna interattiva multimediale o LIM, PC, tablet, ecc