Abdulrahman Alqahtani Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN: 2248-9622, Vol. 6, Issue 1, (Part - 3) January 2016, pp.45-55 www.ijera.com 45|Page Evaluation the Impact of Human Interaction/Debate on Online News to Improve User Interfaces for Debate Applications Abdulrahman Alqahtani 1,2 , Marius Silaghi 2 (1Department of Computer Science, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia) (2Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA) ABSTRACT The average of many people trust online comments for any news as much as personal recommendations [1], [2]. In this paper, we analyzed the impact of the online news’s comments to evaluating the threading models of electronic debates by using online surveys. In this paper, based on the results of our online survey of 500 participants, we evaluated whether forums with comments concerning online news are appropriate for the study of debates. In particular, we have to verify whether the nature of discussions around news is argumentative and whether the participating people expect to engage in multiple rounds of arguments. We presented DirectDemocracyP2P application as a user interface for decentralized debates. In this paper, we evaluated and analyzed the comments that were collected from online surveys to improve the DirectDemocracyP2P applications. Also we have to verify whether the actual comments commonly submitted around news do go beyond the simple advertisement of one own’s merchandise and attacks of competitors, into fair reviews of news features and quality. Keywords–User interfaces for Online News, Evaluation of the Impact of Threading Models on Online News, Methodology, and Results I. INTRODUCTION Some of people who read the online news would like to read and/or write comment on the article that has been read. We live in a society where almost everyone uses social media applications on devices such as smart phones or tablets. These applications include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus, Yahoo messenger, WhatsApp etc. [3], [4]. Most of the recent studies focus on the impact of online comments on open news [5]. This paper focuses on analyzing and comparing threading models for representing knowledge stemming from debates. Peer to Peer starts systems for distributing, editing, and contorting the online news items [5]. Direct DemocracyP2P (DDP2P) provides a system, with multiple graphical interfaces, for news that related to motion in a given organization [6]. In this paper, we present DDP2P application for debate threading. Online networks, including Facebook and MySpace, provide an easy way to create circles of friends. These applications enable the people to connect with the worldwide community. However, they have not yet been studied from the perspective of how they improve group decision making [1], [2]. Large amounts of data and spam that can occur in decentralized social networks raise a challenge for debate user interfaces. The problem that emerges is to scientifically decide whether the debate user interface mechanisms proposed in debate systems do really offer the enhancements for which they were proposed. II. Background Recently, we can describe the evolution of a news as open news or open publishing e.g. Bruns. Open news platforms can used in many interest fields and topic from politics to entertainment e.g. Slashdot [5]. Defining the Debate: In certain decision making fora (such as parliaments, or electronically in DirectDemocracyP2P), a debate focuses on a clear motion (i.e., proposal of a decision) that is relevant to a given organization. Users can vote on it with justifications. We differentiate between debates and brainstorming sessions, namely where a question and its possible answers were not yet crystallized. The regular discussions commonly available with blogs and electronic news are classified as brainstorming sessions, while discussions associated with common polls, news reviews and petition drives platforms are classified as debates. III. User Interfaces for Online News The output of debates consists not only in the decision to be done, but also in a better understanding of the issue by the involved participants. Besides improving their under- standing of the discussed matter, involved participants can also improve their understanding of each other’s point of view. The obtained classification of the goals of a debate is as follows: RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS