Title
BotViz: Data Visualizations for Collaborations With Bots and Volunteers.
Abstract
Online bots are quickly becoming important collaborators with humans in tackling issues in healthcare, politics, and even activism. Recently, non-profits have used many bots in place of their human members to scaffold collaborations with citizens. However, this shift invites new challenges: it is difficult for outsiders to understand the joint effort that bots have now initiated with humans, limiting the goals reached collectively. To help non-profits coordinate the volunteers recruited by online bots, we propose BotViz. BotViz is a new online platform that via data visualizations provides outsiders a clear understanding of the interactions of bots with volunteers. Our data visualization presents two benefits related to traditional interfaces: 1) Diversity, wherein people can understand the diversity of the volunteers, especially their unique strengths; 2) Stalling, wherein people who may be delaying the collective effort triggered by bots can be easily identified by volunteers. Together, our data vi-sualizations point to a future where humans and online bots can better collaborate in order to have large scale impact.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
CSCW Companion
World Wide Web,Data visualization,Social media,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Human–computer interaction,Limiting
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-3950-6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
3
11