https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/rose
Research Tool for Online Social Environments
https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/rose
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Research Tool for Online Social Environments
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/rose
- Owner: secure-software-engineering
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2013-08-26T15:47:50.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-09-19T13:53:46.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-25T05:41:35.500Z (11 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 34 MB
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 14
- Forks: 8
- Open Issues: 48
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
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ROSE 3.0
========
Synopsis
----
ROSE is a browser extension for researchers to capture in situ data on how users actually use online social networks.
[Please see the project page for more detailed information.](https://secure-software-engineering.github.io/rose/index.html)
Features
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* Currently supported social network sites: facebook.com, (experimental: reddit.com)
* Capturing user interactions such as likes, unlikes, comments, sending chat messages or sharing content.
* Capturing addtional information about the content users interacting with (e.g. posts, sharer, etc.)
* Capturing user activity by mouse move distance, scroll distance, OSN tab focus time, click amount and login status
* Comment function enables study participants to comment on their own or others' actions right in the OSN
* Privacy by Design: With the ROSE control center study participants have full control over the data collected. No shared content such as chat messages or images is collected. Captured events have privacy-respecting identifiers to correlate them among study participants (if required), and to relate events and comments. ROSE's privacy-aware design aims on minimizing interferences with the field.
* Easy to adopt to changes in the structure of OSNs or even add new sites by standardized observer definitions with push update functionality
* Bilingual: English(US) and German(DE)
* Cross-browser compatibility through the [Kango - Cross-browser extension framework](http://kangoextensions.com/)
References
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In the following paper we describe how we use ROSE in our empirical field studies:
> Andreas Poller, Petra Ilyes, Andreas Kramm: Designing privacy-aware online social networks - A reflective socio-technical approach. CSCW ’13 Measuring Networked Social Privacy Workshop, February 23-27, 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
>
> [[PDF]](http://testlab.sit.fraunhofer.de/downloads/Publications/poller_osn_design_cscw13_workshop_camera_ready_rot.pdf)
Build
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To build ROSE you need `node, npm, bower, ember-cli and gulp` installed.
We use the kango framework, which has to be integrated manually.
1. Download from http://web.archive.org/web/20160623024659/http://kangoextensions.com/kango/kango-framework-latest.zip
2. Extract the archive into the rose root folder
3. Rename it to `kango`
You can build your own copy of ROSE with the following steps
1. Install dependencies with `npm`
```
npm install
```
During install you may get asked a few questions. Just choose the defaults. If progress is halted just press return once.
2. Build ROSE UI based on Ember (You can skip this step. A precompiled version is in the repository)
```
cd rui/
npm install
bower install
ember build
cd ..
```
3. Build packages for Chrome and Safari with Kango into respective folders in `dist`
```
gulp build
```
During development you can make use of watch processes:
1. Rebuild UI with watch in `rui/`
```
ember build -w
````
2. Rebuild ROSE with watch and reload
```
gulp
```
About
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ROSE is developed by:
> Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT
> Rheinstrasse 75
> 64295 Darmstadt
> Germany
For questions about ROSE feel free to contact Andreas Poller, andreas.poller@sit.fraunhofer.de
License
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.