A Web-based System for Observing and Analyzing Computer Mediated Communications

Madeth May (1) , Sébastien George (1) , Patrick Prévôt (1)

1 LIESP - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour l'Entreprise et les Systèmes de Production

Tracking data of user's activities resulting from Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) tools (forum, chat, etc.) is often carried out in an ad-hoc manner, which either confines the reusability of data in different purposes or makes data exploitation difficult. Our research works are biased toward methodological challenges involved in designing and developing a generic system for tracking user's activities while interacting with asynchronous communication tools like discussion forums. We present in this paper, an approach for building a Web-based system for observing and analyzing user activity on any type of discussion forums.

Mots clés: e-learning; computer mediated communication; data analysis; tracking data; discussion forum

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Madeth May, Sébastien George, Patrick Prévôt. A Web-based System for Observing and Analyzing Computer Mediated Communications. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006), Dec 2006, Hong Kong, China. pp.983-986. ⟨hal-00195951⟩