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P2Feed

We have built a mock-up of the Facebook Android application that enables peer-to-peer connections.
This application allows a user to download posts from their peers in addition to Facebook servers.

  • Blue Posts

  • Indicates a post was downloaded from Facebook

  • Green Posts

  • Indicates a post was obtained from a peer, that was originally intended to be in the users' feed

  • Select Data Usage Mode

  • Allows the selection of a mode to determine how much data the phone uses and the kind of posts shown in the feed.

  • Yellow Posts

  • Indicates a post was obtained from a peer and is either a public post or a post by a mutual friend

Data Usage Mode Selector

Original

 
Steps
  1. A downloads newsfeed from Facebook
  2. B downloads newsfeed from Facebook
Data Types Received

Reduced

 
Steps
  1. A downloads newsfeed from Facebook
  2. B downloads newsfeed post IDs from Facebook
  3. B sends newsfeed post IDs to A
  4. A sends overlapping newsfeed posts to B
  5. B downloads non-overlapping newsfeed posts from Facebook
Data Types Received

Minimal

 
Steps
  1. A downloads newsfeed from Facebook
  2. B downloads newsfeed post IDs from Facebook
  3. B sends newsfeed post IDs and list of friends to A
  4. A sends overlapping newsfeed posts as well as public and mutual friend posts to B
Data Types Received

Offline

 
Steps
  1. A downloads newsfeed from Facebook
  2. B sends list of friends to A
  3. A sends public and mutual friend posts to B
Data Types Received

Data Logger

 
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© 2014, Aman Kapur, Cypress Frankenfeld, Keely Haverstock, Sarah Strohkorb