合作與比較之跨時間軸網站理論模型

Abstract

時間軸被廣泛應用在各種領域，如醫療、經濟、教育等，各個專業領域因著使用族群、使用模式或資料形式的不同，而有不同的表現、機制與侷限。本研究針對的是社群媒體時間軸，其所面對的是一般使用者，使用模式必須好上手而不能太多複雜，資料形式必須能夠廣泛接受網路上的檔案格式。社群媒體時間軸網站的另一個關鍵重點，便是互動。其中包含使用者與內容的互動與基於內容的使用者間的互動。這些互動均環繞在建構時間軸的內容上，也就是針對內容的留言及共編共修。以內容的共編共修而言，現有的合作式編輯模式以封閉社群來避免某一觀點的內容提供者，與對立觀點的另一內容提供者進行編輯戰爭，本研究則提出了一種新的社群媒體合作模式：共編共修與共存。其中包含了事件、時間軸的共享、共編共修與共存機制及跨時間軸比較機制。 本研究方法分為兩個步驟：案例研究及理論模型推導、系統雛形實作與驗證。第一步驟透過時間信息的視覺化、社群網站、社群網路合作比較、時間軸、時間軸圖像規範等相關領域的文獻與研究，解析出了五個視覺因子與七個社群因子，再透過十個案例的分析，從中推導出新的合作與比較之跨時間軸網站理論模型。第二步驟則以理論模型為基礎，發展出系統架構與網站架構，從而開發雛形系統以為驗證。在此系統中本研究提出了一種新的社群媒體合作模式：共編共修與共存。其中包含了事件、時間軸的共享、共編共修與共存機制及跨時間軸比較機制。

Timelines are broadly applied to various disciplines, such as medicine, economy, or education. There are different presentations, mechanisms and limitations in accordance with varieties from user groups, usage models or data formats. This research focus on the specific application of timeline in social media that are facing the masses, providing functions with simplicity and compatibilities to wide data formats. The other key point of a website of timeline-applied social media are the interactions, including interplays between contents and users, and interactions among users based on published contents. These actions are surrounding the contents constructing the timeline, which are responding messages to events and synchronous composition and modification. In reference to the composition and modification, the present cooperative editing mode applies the functionality of closed group to avoid conflicts from authors and the content providers with opposite opinion. In addition to synchronous composition and modification, sharing of events and timelines, our research proposes a new collaborative mode for social media, the contemporaneous existence and a new possibility of comparative reference across timelines.

This research proposed two steps as the methodology, case studies and model derivations, and the implementation and verification of prototype system. In the first step, we reviewed research and studies from relative disciplines, such as visualizing temporal information, social web sites, social networks collaboration, comparative, timeline and timeline graphical elements, and claimed the factors of five visual elements and seven social elements. The successive derivations to the theory model of the new collaborative and comparative reference cross timelines were based on the analysis of ten project cases. In the second step, on the foundation of the theory model, we developed infrastructure of the system, and built a prototype website as the verification for the new collaborative mode of social media, the contemporaneous existence and the new possibility of comparative reference cross timelines.