[Dev-flock] Consumer Gadget rendering test for Make IT Fair

[wesa aapro]

Hi,

you may be interested in the work I am doing with the Make IT Fair project (
makeitfair.org). This weekend we managed to build a node map of issues
related to Nokia phones, based on Make IT Fair research. A lot of hours
spent on thinking node labels and other small issues, but we learned a lot.

I also did some UI programming with pretty interesting results. There's
still room for many new innovations, but I am starting to be happy with the
work.

http://consumergadget.org/html2.php?ean=n95 is the result page for N95,
containing links to related nodes. The page is designed for mobile phones.
There's quite a lot of text, but it can be read using phone. Node nodes
types are used when the nodes are rendered as human readable node chains.
Below them, all related ethical issues are rendered. Scoring and other extra
information is left out at the moment.

The page deals with some of the issues I wrote in the wiki. For example, a
very interesting issue is that every node must have two labels, a short and
a long one. The short one is used when the context is clear and the long one
when it is not. "Nokia Phone Charger" can be just "charger", when it is
presented under "Nokia Phone".

http://consumergadget.org/xml2.php?ean=n95
contains the same page, but in raw XML (and PHP) format.

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This work relates to BILUMI in two ways.

1) We are digging deep, trying to identify real world node and edge needs.
We are working with NGOs who do field work, many collaboration issues
emerge.
2) The rendering is an example of "consumer UI" of the BILUMI database. Many
different views can be created using BILUMI API, but the more UI metadata
exists, the clearer the rendering is.



Best regards,
Wesa
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