Evaluation and design

Facebook is a social networking that connecting you with your family, friends, and colleagues... Here, you can speak whatever you want with friends, uploading photos, sharing interesting links, webcam talking, as well as to learn more about other people.

The reason why FaceBook is popular than the other networking site is because it provides more friendly interface and easer to maintain, and more important it is free of charge. Whoever you can use Facebook to communicate with other people, it is quite common among young people nowadays. People put pictures and information that they would like to share on Facebook, so that others will know them and they can also meet new friends in this way…

Why evaluation and design are important in develop a new technology:

In the development of a new technology and new products, the area where evaluation technology is most powerful in making user needs apparent. For example, while many of us can think of a new idea, as individuals we usually do not think about or know what it takes to develop a new product and introduce it successfully into the marketplace. On the other hand many of other companies can take advantage of their current knowledge of the marketplace and relationships with existing customers. The company who use evaluation and design approach will find a better position in the market because they think of use’s need, a better technology should take user in Centre, designer should think in two views- designer and user as parallel. If we use evaluation and design approach in develop new technology, we can avoid many project fail.

Experience of Video Conferencing from the point of view of Ethnography

The process of video conferencing in pratical is completely different from what we actually learn. There are whole lot of small things which should be taken care off for the process to be successful. Before the start of the actual process the groups decide what is going to be presented and also take notes of the topics they are going to cover up during the meeting. They even decide who is going to be the key speaker who is going to take the march from their side. They adjust their camera in such a position that all the people present in the meeting are visible. The microphones in such a manner that it remains within the reach of the speaker and voice is audible to the listeners. The volume of the voice should be kept fair enough so that everybody can hear what is being said.
In real video conferencing, there are some agreements and some disagreements to the topics proposed so there is need for taking on the spot decisions and negotiating as well. Thus, people need to be much more alert and concious about what they are speaking. The pauses between the talks are also very relevant to stress upon something in the conversation and giving time to think about what is said.
If all these small things are not taken care about, then it may cause delay in the process of communication. So the basic need for good communication via video conferencing is to engage with the culture of the communication at that particular time. This will help in engaging with the purpose of the meeting in a better manner. It also needs to be noticed the working way of the other party so as to gel along with the environment of the organisation and then work better according to the things which are considered relevant.
The people in the organisation are always busy, it should be checked whats the reason that they stay busy all the time or what do they actually do or how do they do their work etc. all these points should be taken care of while engaging with the working enviroment of a company. This would rather keep them informed and will not create any kind of misunderstanding, if possible.

Organising a Training Event

From the point of view of ethnography,organising a training event requires a whole lot of things to be undertaken for it to be considered successful. Various things should be taken in mind while planning a training event.
Basically it should be kept in mind that for whom the event is designed for i.e. workers, to make them understand and make them feel comfortable with the new working enviroment. It should be bared in mind that what kind of expressions and anxiety does the workers are going to be having. Who all apart from the workers are going to attend the meeting, like managerial personnel and those people who ahve invested their money in the organisation etc.
Since a training event is not a small event, it involves explaining the new staff whole lot of things about the organistion and at the same point keeping them comfortable with the environment. There are various interactions that take place, i.e. the new employees are explained the details and they ask various questions to clarify their doubts. This helps in maintaining a good relationship with the employees

Improvement points for video conferencing..

We can improve our communication in video conferencing in the following manner.
In case the voice is not clear in video conferencing, then we can make use of activities to make the other person understand that his voice is not audible, so that he can make certain arrangements for the problem to be solved.
If there is common ground,i.e. english and there is a common topic for everybody to participate in and stay interested in the meeting. This will enable us to run the meeting smoothly.
We should use smart boardfor showing the details of our meeting rather than speaking because when we see things, they have a deeper impact on our minds as compared to words.
If we find people disinterested in meeting and we had not planned for all that at all, then we can come up with some innovative ways of communicating so that everybody stays interested, like we can make the meeting more interactive by putting up questions to the audience and ask for their participation.

Improvisation of blog

Some of the things which can be considered and on the basis of which we can improve our blog.On the basis of-
COMMON GROUND
We can include topics of evrybody's interest so that we can make it more interactive with people. This would help us in getting different point of views on the same topic and give us a variety of diversity in views. We should try and use language which is easy and understandable to everybody. For example- we should use english as a common base for our blog with common topics and good content.

AFFORDANCE
Affordance can improve our blog as we can make it as a forum for people to learn new thnigs which they can use in their lives and improve the way they deal with things. But the only way to make it possible is to make a precise description of things so that people can easily go through details and get the idea of what is being talked about.We can put many pictures and videos in our blog as images are much more catchy than words.

ACTIVITY
This can be used as one of the way of making the blog much more interactive by putting something in the blog to which people respond to or give their opinions. Activity is one of the things which can help us in pointing out thnigs which are much more important to be read as compared to the other things. For example- we can put bullets to highlight the important points.

AUTOPOIESIS
Autopoiesis means self created. This can actually ask us to make our blog much more innovative, by putting new ways of user friendly ways of using the blog as a representation of ideas.

Space, Co-ordination & Activity

SPACE
Space in communication systems is how much area we require during a coversation or presenting ourselves in front of people. Space basically involves physical enviroment we need in order to communicate, it can be possible that we extend our physical area by moving at different places while stressing on certain areas which are important to be addressed to everybody. There may be many barriers in the space given but its just how you overcome those barriers and do not let them become a hurdle in communication.

CO-ORDINATION
Co-ordination is one of the most essential part of communication. There can't be communication without co-ordination. It involves when one should say whatever he wishes to say, i.e. if one person is saying something the other person should co-ordinate with his speech and should speak when that person finishes rather than poking his ideas inbetween. Co-ordination in communication would involve understanding amongst the people communicating. Co-ordination sets the alignment of communication.

ACTIVITY
Activity is a part of communication. It involves the activities undertaken during the method of communication. Activity basically involves actions, for example- if a teacher is teaching in class and he finishes with what he is explaining, then in order to recieve a feedback he agrees the nodding of students as an indication that the students have understood whatever he has taught or incase if a student shruggs his shoulders then its an indication that he has not understood whatever has been taught or he has a doubt. Thus, communication can be done as a way of activity as well.

Affordance,Common Ground, Deictic references,

Affordance:

Affordance is when a users seeing a new thing, users can not only recognizes the purpose of it, but also recognizes how it can be use and how to operate it immediately. For example, when you see a door handle, you know here is a path to somewhere else, and you know when you pull/push the handle, the door will open. Affordance is people can easly get konwing new things bise on their previous knowledge and experience.

Common Ground

The Clark’s common ground theory has illustrated a clear picture of the human communication process. It states that all of the communication actions are the collaborative activities that require the participants share the common goal and responsibly to achieve that goal. The coordination mechanism has been used as a shared basis that ensures participants to believe the existence of the same common joint goal between them during the communication actions. The shared basis is common ground. According to Clark, the using of language and the way of communication between human beings are highly depending on the collaboration of speaker and listener. In order to develop a common ground, the speaker presents an utterance to express a meaning and the listener gives evidence of understanding of that presentation. The common ground processing consists of several pairs of presentation and acceptance.

Deictic references

The deictic references are the collectively orientation features of human language. It is used for pointing out and clarifying the space, time, location and other significant information in the human linguistic communication.