Instructions for the user

Welcome to Geosocial beta 2.0. Geosocial is a new way to find friends, who have the same interesting in a various categories and activities. Make your checkins on the map wherever you are and let your friends know it.

First of all, you must register in order to create a new account. After registing, log in with your Username and your Password. After log in, you will see the main tab "Check In / Add POI". There you can upload your image or an avatar. Clicking on your image you will go to your profile page, where you can edit your personal details.

Clicking on the "Find it" button, you can find your approximate position or you can see where the provider gives you the signal.

At the top-right of every page you will see our Live Search, where you can search for new friends. As you can see, there is a button "add friends" in a few pages, clicking on this button you will find an other page for searching friends. For the purpose of our user-study, we decided to keep both ways. Once, you have added your first friends (at least 5 friends per user), please evaluate our "search friends" system. Then, visit the tab "Friend Rec". There, you will see our friend recommendation system, which is seperated by two different methods. At the bottom of this page, you are able to rate both this two methods.

Clicking on your friends image, you are able to see their profile and their friends. Furthermore, you can see the last ten Check-Ins which are made by your friend.

You will find the most valuable function visiting the tab "Check In / Add POI". Click on the "Show all POI's" button in order to see on the map all the Point Of Interests in our database. When pushing left click on the dots, a pop-up window opening. Please fill in the required fields in order to do your first Check-Ins. On the other hand, pushing right click anywhere on the map you can enter a new POI on the database/map. Using the search bar you can find any place, anywhere upon on the map. Click on the other buttons to see your POI's or your friends POI's.

After all, visit the tab "Activity History", where you can see all your Check-Ins made by you. Also, there are a few drop down menus there. Select your preferable town/city and see which places there are already in our database. Rating your choice, select the appropriate activity and finally make your comment. In a future visit if you do not remember where each point is, you can navigate on the map by pressing the button "Move". Finally, you are able to delete one or more of your Check-Ins.

In addition, there two others main tabs, "POI Rec" and "Activity Rec". At the first tab, the user has the opportunity depending on the cities where he/she has already made Check-ins and his/her preferable activity to see on the map our recommendations based on his/her criteria. At the second tab, the user selecting the city of his choice, will get all the the POIs and activities for this city. Both, these two tabs at the bettom have evaluation forms. For us, it is really important to take from users their feedback.

Important notices

1) All the fields are required everywhere in the website.
2) For your safety, our database saves your password with sha1 encrypt method.
3) In order to recover your lost password, please follow the password reset process. You will be asked to set a new password.
4) Especially use latin characters when you enter a new POI on the database.
5) If there is a city is not included in our database, please ask from us to add it.
6) For us is very important your feedback in order to improve the quality of our services.
7) There are 4 evaluation forms, in each of the followind tabs: i) Friend Rec, ii) POI Rec, iii) Activity Rec and iv) when you push the button "add friends" - Simple Search System

Do not hesitate to contact with the site admin at adonis188chalkis@yahoo.gr