Paper Info
Title
Exploring Asynchronous Online Discussions through Hierarchical Visualisation
Abstract
We introduce a highly customizable Social Visualization system for exploring online discussions through visual representations of conversation threads. The tool provides users with an interface that allows the navigation and exploration through the often intricate structure of online discussions.Apart from being useful for readers and participants of these forums, the interactive capabilities of our system makes it appealing for social researchers interested in understanding the phenomena and intrinsic structure of online conversations. We also show a use case where we applied the tool to visualize discussions from Slashdot.org,showing its capabilities to represent new, in this case Slashdot specific, metrics. The visual representation of discussion threads has arisen as a complement for supporting investigation,as it helps to understand such large amount of information and contributes to the generation of new research ideas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/IV.2009.14
IV
Keywords
Field
DocType
exploring asynchronous online discussions,intricate structure,intrinsic structure,visual representation,use case,customizable social visualization system,conversation thread,online conversation,hierarchical visualisation,new research idea,case slashdot specific,online discussion,internet,pediatrics,visualization,navigation,sociology,data visualization,user interfaces,data mining,interface,data visualisation
Asynchronous communication,Data visualization,World Wide Web,Yarn,Conversation,Visualization,Computer science,Thread (computing),Human–computer interaction,User interface,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-6037
978-0-7695-3733-7
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.86
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Victor Pascual-Cid1162.38
Andreas Kaltenbrunner261350.64
Pascual-Cid, V.390.86