Q2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Engineering multiuser museum interactives for shared cultural experiences" ?
In terms of future work, the authors can improve user social engagement, the scene design and, the efficacy of the agent architecture in supporting the curation task. The authors also wish to revisit an idea that was in their earlier prototype [ 52 ], where an online image recommender was used to select images that matched the tag preferences of two users. On the other hand, they will likely require a new GUI design for maintaining the usability of the interface, a key element for conveying a sense of shared experience to the users of their system. A smarter method would be to extract a representation of images based on their potential for discussion by the group, as opposed to a simplistic, tag based metric.
Q3. What are the key features for the development of a socio-technical system?
Social interaction and collaboration are key features for the development of a socio-technical system like the one described in this paper.
Q4. What is the purpose of the argue scene?
Whilst the goal of the forum scene is to develop a sense of community discourse around an image (and the deletion a bubble tag of another user can foster the creation of new arguments), the goal of the argue scene is to support a “private” bilateral negotiation protocol that lets a user to persuade another one about the specifics of an image.
Q5. What are the functions that return the tag t of an argument?
The functions Tag, Val, Str and Conc return respectively the tag t of an argument ((t, v), w, im), its value v, its weight w, and the conclusion im.
Q6. How many people were able to express their opinions in the select scene?
When reporting on their ability to express an opinion of the image in the questionnaire, 73% of participants felt they were able to express a preference in the select scene, and 81% reported that they could express opinions via the forum scene using the tags.
Q7. what is a generic decision criterion for making a decision about the interestingness?
A generic decision criterion for making a decision about the interestingness of an image imj can be defined as:int(imj) = { 1, if 0 < fagg(~r) ≤ 1 0, if − 1 ≤ fagg(~r) ≤ 0(1)where ~r = {r1(imj), . . . , rn(imj)} is a vector consisting of the image preferences of n users w.r.t. an image imj .
Q8. What is the role of the user agent in a forum scene?
Given the image preferences of all the users running in a select scene, the UserAssistant agent is responsible to decide whether the image (which is currently browsed) is interesting enough to be further discussed in a forum scene;• Forum Scene:– Automatic image preference slider updater:
Q9. How can the authors get a different behaviour of the group by plugging in another decision model?
Please notice that, since the MCD is a decision criterion run by the agents participating to the EI, the authors can obtain a different behaviour of the group by plugging in another decision model.
Q10. What are the two operators that were more restrictive when selecting images?
the weighted mean and the WOWA operators, since they depend on the number of zooms, and consequently, on the user activity, were more restrictive when selecting images.
Q11. What is the reason why the select scene was not very sensitive?
The analysis performed suggests that in the select scene, the arithmetic mean operator was not very sensitive at the moment of classifying the images, and for this reason, more images tended to go through the curation process, although they were finally rejected by voting.
Q12. What is the motivation for introducing Device Managers?
The motivation for introducing Device Managers, is that in a mobile network the present devices usually have varying capabilities, often limited, and therefore one should find a suitable balance of work load between the devices.