By considering the functions of our platform, the potential users of our platform will target the group of people who are going to learn a foreign language to study or live in somewhere of foreign countries and seek for help or advice. Our interview is going to find out the group of people who have […]
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Applying for ERGO, Getting the Approval for Our Interviews
According to the University policies, we need to apply for the approval which is ERGO (Ethics and Research Governance Online) to process our interviews. Based on the submission process, there are three forms we need to complete. Submission – questionnaire essential information for the interview to classify the category of the investigation. Ethics Form – […]
What would users need from MoreThan Talk
We interviewed Sefika and Ziqi, two University of Southampton students whose homes are abroad to talk about why they chose to come and study in Southampton and what they would liked to have known before them came. SaveSave
HelloTalk
HelloTalk Overview Like WeSpeke, Hello Talk is an online social network that is using a chat application to help people to learn how to speak a new language. References [1] J. Stewart, ‘How does Technology Make Money?’, University of Southampton, 2018.
The Student Room
The Student Room Overview The Student Room (TSR) is a forum aimed at young people. There is a focus on school and university, though spaces are reserved for non-academic discussison. The service is aimed at a UK-audience [2]. Though much more generalised than the social network that we are proposing, it will be useful to […]
Logo : Finding A Brand Image for MoreThan Talk
Having settled on the name ‘MoreThan Talk’ we will need to devise a logo or symbol so that among all the competing social media icons stands out. With this in mind I went searching to see there were any examples of ‘MoreThan Talk’ iconography on the Web. Pleasingly there are only a couple of […]
Logo : A review of existing social network site logos
Visual Identity What ever we end up calling our social network, we will need to develop a strong visual identify. The name itself will form part of that identity, but there does need to be some visual association of the name with something that users recognise such that it becomes familiar. As a thoroughly non-academic […]
WeSpeke
Analysis of Existing Similar Tools Why look at existing Social Network services? When you are designing a new service to offer consumers, it is important that you do not copy someone else’s service because they can probably (and most likely already are) do it better than you can [1]. In this series of posts, we […]