Mining memories: Designing a platform to support social media based writing

John Sadauskas; Daragh Byrne; Robert Atkinson

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702383

Mining memories: Designing a platform to support social media based writing

John Sadauskas, Daragh Byrne, Robert Atkinson

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Abstract

Many teens struggle with school writing and particularly in identifying personally relevant topics, which motivate writing improvement. However, a wealth of potential topics is available through their social media data. We explore the design of Sparkfolio, a prewriting support tool that aims to help students successfully prepare meaningful writing topics from their own social media content. This webdelivered tool was evaluated with 46 teen users in the context of their high school English class. Findings demonstrate that the use of social media can enhance the quality of written outcomes, as Sparkfolio users had significantly greater gains than a control group.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	3691-3700
Number of pages	10
Volume	2015-April
ISBN (Print)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702383
State	Published - Apr 18 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 18 2015 → Apr 23 2015

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Other	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	4/18/15 → 4/23/15

Keywords

Creative writing
Education
Social media
Storytelling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Sadauskas, J, Byrne, D & Atkinson, R 2015, Mining memories: Designing a platform to support social media based writing. in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. vol. 2015-April, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3691-3700, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 4/18/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702383

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