lackaff / pasn

prototype of online-SNS-aware ego-centric network survey application

PASN: Propitious Aggregation of Social Networks

IMPORTANT: It is very likely that this application no longer works -- it is provided here simply for archival purposes.

PASN is an online data-collection instrument designed to conduct surveys involving ego-centric social network data. PASN can utilize personal network data that has been "propitiously" articulated by users of popular social network sites like Facebook. PASN uses PHP and AJAX to provide an easy-to-use participant interface, and MySQL to store survey data. Features include:

*Ability to construct surveys using multiple question types *Social network name-generator interface using user-definable questions/alter categories *SNS contact import interface facilitates name-generation by importing existing contact lists *Drag-and-drop interface for questions regarding personal contacts. Example survey item: "These people would loan me $50 so I could go away for a weekend" *Allows for user authentication and longitudinal data tracking

Read more

Lackaff, D. (2012). New opportunities in personal data collection. In M. Zacarias & J. de Oliviera (Eds.) Human-computer interaction: The agency perspective. Frankfurt, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-25691-2_17

Lackaff, D. (2010). Reducing participant burden in ego-centric network data collection. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’10), 28, 1467-1470. doi: 10.1145/1753326.1753545

History (2008-2009)

PASN was designed by Derek Lackaff, and primarily coded by Jeffery Fritz while an undergrad at SUNY-Buffalo.

This project was supported by a grant from the Mark Diamond Research Fund.

License

This software is an extension of the Codon Framework by Nabeel Shahzad.

PASN: Propitious Aggregation of Social Networks Copyright (c) Derek Lackaff, 2008-2012

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Codon PHP Framework www.nsslive.net/codon Software License Agreement (BSD License)

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