S-FIT: a technique for integrating social features in existing information systems

  • Authors:
  • Kelly Lyons;Lysanne Lessard

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto;University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

There has been much interest in the design of social websites and an increasing use of social tools for group work in organizations. Recommendations and design guidelines have been developed that guide designers in building certain aspects of social network and social media sites from scratch. However, there has been little investigation into transforming existing information systems into socially-oriented ones. We address this gap by first identifying the key features of socially-oriented systems from literature on social network and social media sites. We then present S-FIT, a social features integration technique, which can be applied to a model of an existing information system in order to identify opportunities to incorporate social features within the system. S-FIT can be used to extend commonly-used systems modeling techniques. We illustrate the application of S-FIT on a Business Process Diagram of an existing library information system.