The document proposes SOMFA (Social Media For All), a system to make social media more accessible by bringing social media content to television. SOMFA crawls social media sites using RSS/ATOM feeds, extracts and transcodes text and multimedia content, and generates an audio/video stream and script for display on a TV. It is designed to be portable across different social media by relying on web syndication standards. The goal is to increase accessibility of social media for those who have difficulties accessing the web directly.
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Augmenting Social Media Accessibility for All with SOMFA
1. Augmenting Social Media Accessibility Roberto Borrino, Marco Furini , Marco Roccetti matrixbob@tin.it Department of Computer Science, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy [email_address] Department of Social Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy [email_address] Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy Hello everybody!
2. Why Social Media? . Communication Media Built on the set of Internet technologies grouped under the label Web 2.0 Provide new opportunities for sharing and discussing information among human beings Change the way communication, collaboration, interaction, and information are consumed and produced Social Media
3. Social Media Landscape Decentralized, user friendly, and easily sharable for the average citizen. Mainly based on Web 2.0 technologies and include blogs, vblogs, podcast, SMS, video communication, social networks, wikies, … Social Media
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5. Social Media Accessibility There is a widening generation gap between adolescents growing up with social technology and adults who find it foreign and unsettling Amanda Gefter Living online: This is your space New Scientist, September 2006 Most social media are mainly designed for people without any limitation either geographical, physical, economical or technological it is necessary to augment social media accessibility. Social media should be available to the largest possible audience
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7. SOMFA: Portability SOMFA can be used to augment the accessibility of any social media, provided that social media contents are available in Web syndication formats Designed to be as portable as possible Instead of focusing on specific social media, SOMFA relies on standards used to keep people update, i.e. the Web syndication formats (RSS and ATOM)