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Abstract

Background

Online social networks share similar topological characteristics as real-world social networks. Many studies have been conducted to analyze the online social networks, but it is difficult to link human interests with social network software design.

Purpose

The goal of this work is to propose a methodology involving the analysis of human interactions for use in designing online social network software.

Methods

We propose a novel use of social network analysis techniques to elicit requirements in order to design better online Social network-based software. The validation case study involved the collection of real-world data by means of a questionnaire to perform a network design construction and analysis. The key idea is to examine social network to help in the identification of behaviors and interests of people for better software requirements elicitation.

Results

The validation case study demonstrates how unexpected centrality measures can emerge in real world networks. Our case study can thus conducted as a baseline for better requirement elicitation studies for online social network software design. This work also indicates how sociometric methods may be used to analyze any social domain as a possible standard practice in online social network software design. Overall, the study proved the effectiveness of the proposed novel methodology for the design of online social network software. The methodology specifically improves upon traditional methods for software design by involving social network modeling and analysis to first study the behavior and elicit requirements to develop more resilient online social network sites.

Details

Title
Using social network analysis of human aspects for online social network software: a design methodology
Author
Ghafoor, Faiza; Niazi, Muaz A
Pages
1-19
Section
Complex Network Modeling
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Jul 2016
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
e-ISSN
21943206
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1815232248
Copyright
The Author(s) 2016