Title
PeopleGarden: creating data portraits for users
Abstract
Many on-line interaction environments have a large number of users. It is difficult for the participants, especially new ones, to form a clear mental image about those with whom they are interacting. How can we compactly convey information about these participants to each other? We propose the data portrait, a novel graphical representation of users based on their past interactions. Data portraits can inform users about each other and the overall social environment. We use a flower metaphor for creating individual data portraits, and a garden metaphor for combining these portraits to represent an on-line environment. We will review previous work in visualizing both individuals and groups. We will then describe our visualizations, explain how to create them, and show how they can be used to address user questions.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1145/320719.322581
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
interaction context,user-centered visualization,data portraits,data portrait,information visualization,social environment
Social environment,World Wide Web,Information visualization,Computer science,Portrait,Mental image,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Metaphor
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-075-9
92
6.98
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rebecca Xiong1958.45
Judith S. Donath21029158.32