InfoMap

Player guide to InfoMap

InfoMap displays social media and news articles on a global map and content feed for personas that are geolocated.

Benefit

• Geolocates social media and news for real-time context

• Combines multiple information streams for efficient monitoring

• Supports faster, more informed decision-making

• Helps identify misinformation and communication gaps

Features

• Real-time display of geo-located social and news activity

• Ability to display a range of icons for content matching anticipated words or phrases

• Ability to filter feed by geographic regions and search terms

• Clickable pins display post content, user and link to post

• Filtering by channel: Facebook, Twitter or Instagram

InfoMap overview

Refer to the image below for an overview of the Infomap layout.

News aggregation

News aggregation conveniently provides insight into media activity on one screen.

This replicates familiar software trainees might use in real life and contributes to a high fidelity environment.

Available player actions

Editing locations during an exercise

To edit personas locations during the exercise first assign the "Edit Players Geolocation" special permission (see more on assigning special permissions here). Once this special permission has been assigned click on the personas social media profile, and then the pin next to the personas profile image.

Filter and search

You can search for specific content by applying various filters. You have the option to filter by...

Keywords

There are two different ways you can search for keywords:

1. The main search bar to search the filtered map area.

2. The secondary search bar to further search the feed.

Channel

You can filter content by channel (e.g. Facebook / X / Instagram).

1. Click on "channel".

2. Select the content you want to filter from the dropdown menu.

Timeframe

You can filter content by minutes, hours, days, months or years.

1. Click on the calendar, located to the left of the map search bar.

2. Select the timeframe you desire and click "apply".

Geographical Region

Information can be filtered geographically by drawing on the map.

1. Click on the calendar, located to the left of the map search bar.

2. Select the timeframe you desire and click "apply".

Open and interact with posts

Pins on the map are interactive and when clicked on, display all the posts from that location.

When an icon is clicked, that post is then located in the feed.

Click on "see source" to find, view and interact with the original post.

View in a range of immersive modes

Full screen mode

Full screen mode hides the virtual desktop allowing for a more immersive experience into InfoMap.

To enable full screen view:

Click on the the full screen button located in the top left hand corner of the map.

Activity and channel view

Click on "layers" to switch between activity and channel view.

Switching between these views will impact the icons displayed on the map and in the feed.

In "activity view", icons correspond to content matching words or phrases in the live feed.

Zoom in/out

Pins represent where information is coming from.

Use the + and - buttons to zoom in and out.

Click and drag the curser to navigate around the map.

Pins that are located close together are grouped and identified by colour, dependant on the volume of information.