The user interface needs to be well designed in order to gain broad acceptance, both in terms of how the site is presented and also in terms of how users contribute content. In discussing requirements, some indication is given of distinctive implementation features that the system should exhibit. This will be in accordance to the giving – receiving paradigm that provides a basis for views between people, with greater personalisation. Accessibility should be seen as a natural consequence of such a requirement.
Cognitive Awareness
The system design will be sensitive to the cognitive dimensions, supported by insights from various disciplines such as educational neuroscience. The user interface will reflect this by adopting special techniques that deploy best practice, most notably using interventions that are designed to grant the cognitive space to digest, consider consequences or implications and hence make appropriate decisions.
Among the techniques to be used will be Harvard’s
Thinking Routines, with formulations rooted in
Buddhist psychology. An overview is to be included
here; for some indicative details see a series of
articles, ‘Pause forThought: The Use of Interventions
in Social NetworkingSites’,
http://paultrafford.blogspot.com/2018/08/pause-for-thought-use-of-interventions.html
and
http://paultrafford.blogspot.com/2018/09/pause-for-thought-use-of-interventions.html
Next we present a dialogical approach to registration.