Action Science Approach to Nonprofit Housing Services

In this research, Yao-Jen Chang, Hsin-Yu Hsu, Tsen-Yung Wang try to find how to unleash the power of Web2.0, and map mash-up services in particular for the organization who actually was ahead in applying Internet technology to providing housing information for people seeking to rent apartments. Research methodologies of action science including in-depth interview, field study, focused group, and participant observation [2, 3, 6] are adopted to collect data to analyze the needs of the front-line users. So it is a natural and good choice of conducting the organizational Web renovation project, people in social services and information systems can speak the same language Architecture of this system includes: (1) Context manager, (2) Map Service, (3) Database, (4) Matchmaker, and (5) SMS Service. Matchmaker is used for to record a user’s selections preference enables the matching module to be personalized to a user’s likings, which are essential in the housing applications. Resource Description Framework (RDF) has come to be used as a general method of modeling information, through a variety of syntax formats. RDFS has made the knowledge presentation more cohesive and flexible. The result of this researh (in context-aware capabilities and personalized matching) for 4 section include Map GUI, User Survey, Stress Test, and Diffusion of Innovations has been built and tested with significant success.