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1 How to use the Social Capital Companion (SCC) 1 Social Capital Companion is a beta app for Android 4.0 or higher which aims to follow up the development of social interactions from a personal network already collected by members of the research team. The research team periodically reminds the user to update his/her network and to share it in order to receive the appropriate feedback. The aim is to identify personal network profiles and activities associated with successful ventures in the field of the social economy. Index 1. Preparation: Import your personal network from the Egonet interview .......... 2 2 Exploration: let's have a look at the data .......................................................... 4 3 Keeping track of your social life ........................................................................ 9 4 Share your network data .................................................................................. 14 1 http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/algo/software/scc/ Authored by Juergen Lerner, Josep Floriach, and the teams egolab-GRAFO (UAB) and the Laboratorio de redes (UAA) within the framework of the research project MINECO (CSO2012-32635). More information: [email protected]

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How to use the Social Capital Companion (SCC)1

Social Capital Companion is a beta app for Android 4.0 or higher which aims to

follow up the development of social interactions from a personal network

already collected by members of the research team. The research team

periodically reminds the user to update his/her network and to share it in order

to receive the appropriate feedback. The aim is to identify personal network

profiles and activities associated with successful ventures in the field of the

social economy.

Index

1. Preparation: Import your personal network from the Egonet interview .......... 2

2 Exploration: let's have a look at the data .......................................................... 4

3 Keeping track of your social life ........................................................................ 9

4 Share your network data .................................................................................. 14

1 http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/algo/software/scc/

Authored by Juergen Lerner, Josep Floriach, and the teams egolab-GRAFO (UAB) and the Laboratorio de redes

(UAA) within the framework of the research project MINECO (CSO2012-32635). More information:

[email protected]

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1. Preparation: Import your personal network from the Egonet interview

Start the App SCC-Preview. If it does not work:

Remember that it works only for Android 4.0 or newer.

You have to allow the installation of non-market apps (apps that are not downloaded from Google Play)

→ Find the Settings of your device → choose Security → check Allow the installation of non-market apps

The SCC starts and you see the dialog Add contacts to your network; since we

want to do something else click on cancel.

Note: you can open the Add contacts dialog at any time by clicking on the

following icon in the action bar.

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Now, we want to import your personal network -which we've already collected

in the former study. To be able to load this, open the apps menu and click on

settings.

Now select Egonet-style interview and close the dialog.

Again, open the menu and this time click on Interview me.

Press Load survey and select the file enclave.ego in your download directory or

wherever you have saved it. It takes a while to load the questionnaire, and then

you can import your Egonet interview (which will also take a while).

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2 Exploration: let's have a look at the data

To switch between network elements, click at drop-down menu located at the

top-left of the screen. There are three options: me, contacts, and labels.

- “Labels” contains all the labels of the network. Here you can see labels

related to Ego, Alters, ties between Ego-Alter, and ties between Alter-

Alter. This section is explained in more detail in the following pages. For

now, it’s enough for you to know that here you can see and edit all the

labels of the network.

- “Me” contains all the information related to ego. You can see your

memorandums, your profile, and your ties with other people. Maybe

some of these modules shrunk. You can expand them by clicking on the

button with an arrow pointing down. Also, you can edit the value of every

label in “My profile” module by clicking on the button with a pencil icon.

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- “Contacts” contains all the information related with the Alters. There,

you will see an overview of all the people associated with ego. You can

get a more detailed view of each person, by clicking on his name. In the

new screen, you will see his memorandums, profile, ties with the ego, and

ties with other people (other alters). To get back to the overview (the list

of contacts), click on the app-icon with the little left-pointing arrow (left

of 'contacts in the right-hand picture below). This switching between

overview and detail is a general mechanism for navigation in the app. On

a larger device (such as a tablet) in landscape orientation you see the

overview and detail-view side by side.

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Also, you can see a graphical view of the full network. To achieve this, click

on the button located at the top-right side of the screen. If the network is so big

that you can’t see the detail of some nodes, you can zoom into the network by

dragging two of your fingers across the screen. Also, you can move between

different places of the network by dragging one finger. As you can see, the last

alter viewed into detail, appears marked in red.

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The statistics view allows you to visualize some variables of the network,

showing you a comparison between the actual parameter and an ideal parameter.

There are two ways to go into this view. If you are using your device in a

vertical orientation, you have to open the app menu and select Statistics View. If

you are in horizontal orientation, you will see a new icon that it is not present in

the vertical one. In the statistics view menu you will see four statistics: gender,

density, centrality, and betweenness. There is a fifth button named “Set ideal

case”. This button allows you to define the ideal values of these four parameters.

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You can search contacts by name by clicking on the button with a magnifier

icon.

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3 Keeping track of your social life

You can edit the existing labels or add new labels by going to Labels module

like we explained in the previous section. Here, press the button with a pencil

and a plus sign. A new window will be showed to add the information of the

new label. Also, you can edit the properties of an existing label by clicking on it.

To add a memorandum for an Alter, just click on the plus icon located at the

right-hand side of “Events / memos”.

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Also, you can edit all elements of this alter by clicking with the pencil icon of

each element. You can edit his profile, ties with the Ego, and ties with other

Alters. If you click on an alter related with the current one, you will be able to

edit the information of the relationship between these two alters. Pay attention to

the option “Reverse dyad”. This is important because these ties are not

symmetric, so you can have some information from alter A to alter B, but not

from alter B to alter A.

You can add new contacts to your network by clicking on the following icon.

Add contacts from your device, or write directly his name into the input box.

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Finally, you can complete your network data by using the interview-me

function. The button is located in the app menu.

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There are two different interview styles: random interview, or Egonet style

interview. You can change this, by openning app menu, and pressing on the

Settings option.

Egonet style interview will interview you, like if you were doing an

interview with Egonet. Previously, however, you must load an interview

into the SCC, or this functionality won’t work. Once you have completed

the interview, the Ego profile will be filled with new labels, according to

the answers from the Ego questions. Also, new contacts will be added into

the network, with his own profile, and ties, depending on the answers

from Alter Question Prompt, Alter questions, and Alter-Alter questions.

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Random interview, will ask you random questions related with the labels

of SCC application. You can skip the current question, or fill it in. If you

if you do the latter, the Alter panel about this contact will appear, so you

can edit this contact’s information.

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4 Share your network data

Finally, SCC has an option to export the current network into a GraphML

format. To achieve this, just click on the app menu, and click on Export

GraphML. You can save it with your preferred name into your chosen folder,

and then import that file into another program that supports these file types.