Title
Understanding the utility of geospatial information in social media.
Abstract
Crisis situations generate tens of millions of social media reports, many of which contain references to geographic features and locations. Contemporary systems are now capable of mining and visualizing these location references in social media reports, but we have yet to develop a deep understanding of what end-users will expect to do with this information when attempting to achieve situational awareness. To explore this problem, we have conducted a utility and usability analysis of SensePlace2, a geovisual analytics tool designed to explore geospatial information found in Tweets. Eight users completed a task analysis and survey study using SensePlace2. Our findings reveal user expectations and key paths for solving usability and utility issues to inform the design of future visual analytics systems that incorporate geographic information from social media.
Year
Venue
Field
2013
ISCRAM
Data science,Geospatial analysis,User expectations,Social media,Task analysis,Situation awareness,Computer science,Usability,Knowledge management,Visual analytics,Analytics
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
6
0.48
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anthony C. Robinson119212.95
Alexander Savelyev21325.99
Scott Pezanowski317111.84
Alan M. MacEachren41207104.22