Sharing-Mart^©(S-Mart) User Manual

1 What is S-Mart?

S-Mart is a virtual currency-based marketplace for its members to come together, and share and market their content. The virtual currency used in this marketplace is the "token." S-Mart is supported by the research project “Innovations in Architectures in

Content Sharing" at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton University.

S-Mart is currently open to anyone with a Facebook account to members of the Princeton University community.

You can generate tokens in S-Mart (i) by registering with S-Mart and earning free tokens in your account, (ii) by selling your content items to other members, and (iii) by checking content requests and responding to them. You can spend these tokens by purchasing content published by other members.

2 What Can I Do with S-Mart?

S-Mart enables you to buy and sell your course notes, past quizzes and many other types of digital content using a fixed price or auction.

The S-Mart auction and the fixed price transaction are two options available for you to share your content with other members. If you need a specific content item, you can request it by means of content request capability of S-Mart. If you wish to share your files with only some of your specific friends, you can do it so by forming your user groups by means of group formation capability of S-Mart. Content rating capability of S-Mart allows you to leave feedback about the content items that you bought. The further details regarding how to use these fun capabilities of S-Mart are provided for you below.

Overall S-Mart provides a full and rich set of features for online content sharing such as content transactions, content request, group formation, and content rating. Content transactions are designed for you to share your content items with other S-Mart members. Figure 1 illustrates how course notes can be bought and sold using S-Mart.

Figure 1: A transaction for course notes.

3 How Do I Access S-Mart? <Top>

Authorization: You can access the S-Mart application by visiting the following link http://sharingmart.princeton.edu and using your Facebook identity or using your Princeton NetID if you are affiliated with Princeton University. In addition, the application can also be accessed from within Facebook by adding the SharingMart application to your Facebook account page. You can add the application to your Facebook account page by searching for the “Sharing-Mart” application in the “Application Directory” on Facebook.

A snapshot of the S-Mart main page is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: A snapshot of S-Mart's main Web page.

Registration: After the authorization process, you are directed to your personalized S-Mart Web page, “My Home”. However, if this is the first time that you are logging into to S-Mart, you will be asked to register with the system. After registering with S-Mart customized Web page and storage space will be created for you. In addition, free tokens will be credited to your account to allow you to buy content items being sold by other S-Mart members. You just need to enter some basic information about yourself such as user name and department. When registering as a new user, you also need to agree to the terms of Princeton University Rules and Regulations. After you register with S-Mart, you can start uploading and downloading content items and access many other features

4 Features <Top>

All of the features are easily accessible using the left navigation menu illustrated in Figure 3. Click here for a detailed description of each of the features.

Features	Navigation Menu
1. Search for content
2. View your personalized web page
3. Manage your content
4. Request content
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5. Create auctions & participate in auctions
6. Create user groups