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-- JosephDung - 18 Feb 2011

Scenarios for Cindy:

FIRST SCENARIO

  1. One of Cindy's assignments sees her comparing English language texts from a writers in Canada and South Africa
  2. She needed to understand the type of words writer's from both countries uses to describe feminist issues
  3. She chose South Africa because of its high incidence of rape and gender violence
  4. Cindy wants to understand how female activists and the general populace treat that topic
  5. And also wanted to understand the difference between feminist discourse in a patriarchal culture and that of Canada’s
  6. Cindy has been able to gather plain text versions of online newspapers, journals, essays, and books from both countries
  7. She accesses the TAPoR website and logs in her account
  8. She notices the option of being able to submit files in plain text in a text box and chooses it
  9. She is interested in the occurrences of the word “sexual violence”, “shame” and “silence”
  10. She runs the word count tool sequentially against the texts from both countries and sees the results display
  11. The different results are located in different tabs
  12. The word counts confirms her suspicion about the attitudes to domestic violence in both societies
  13. But she needed a greater context on the results she has
  14. She saves the results

SECOND SCENARIO

  1. Cindy wants some blob of text from two different websites analyzed
  2. She thinks it will save her some dear time instead of manually copying and saving plain text
  3. She is not sure at first if TAPoR has such a tool
  4. She notices the option to search for tools
  5. But also notices tool categories and that the HTML/Extraction tools has a collection of tools
  6. She reads the description of each tool
  7. She picks a tool which tidies up the html and extracts only the texts from the site she wants to see
  8. She enters the URLs of the sites she wants analyzed
  9. She runs the tool and is able to compare the text outputs from both sites
  10. She compares the text outputs from both sites
  11. She votes the tool as useful
  12. She wanted to understand the context in which certain words were mentioned
  13. She runs a word co-occurrence tool on the same text
  14. Cindy realizes that she wanted to also have the option to feed the results of the texts into a third tool
  15. She proceeds to save both the results and the preferred tool
  16. Cindy emails the results to her inbox and blog

THIRD SCENARIO

  1. After reading the statistical results of the texts she entered she realized she needed a quick way to reference some of the words in relation to others
  2. Thankfully Cindy had saved the results of her last activity on the TAPoR site
  3. She decides to run a visualization tool on the results to see how they connect with each other in a 2 and 3-dimensional representation
  4. She once more saves this tool and post the visualization output to her blog
  5. She logs out



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