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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '99 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

SESSION: Late-breaking results: seeing is understanding: new visualization techniques table of contents

Pages: 186 - 187

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-158-5

Authors

Nelson Minar	MIT Medial Lab, Cambridge, MA
Judith Donath	MIT Medial Lab, Cambridge, MA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 5, Downloads (12 Months): 37, Citation Count: 5

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ABSTRACT

A visualization of the crowds of people visiting a web site is developed. Visitors are drawn as icons on a map of the web site; the animation of people's movements conveys the crowd dynamics of visitors. The visualization combines three pieces: a map of the web site, an iconic representation of individual visitors, and an interpretation of the dynamics of visitor patterns to show crowd phenomena. The effect is to make a web site look like a social, active space.

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	1	Honkela, Timo, et al. Self-Organizing Maps of Document Collections. In proceedings of WSOM'97, Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, June 4-6, 1997, pp. 310-315.
	2	Milgram, S. 1969. The drawing power of crowds of different size. In The Individual in a Social World, 2nd edition. New York: McGraw Hill
	3	Alan Wexelblat , Pattie Maes, Footprints: history-rich tools for information foraging, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: the CHI is the limit, p.270-277, May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States [doi>10.1145/302979.303060]
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CITED BY 5

	Younghee Jung , Alison Lee, Design of a social interaction environment for electronic marketplaces, Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques, p.129-136, August 17-19, 2000, New York City, New York, United States
	Doron Cohen , Michal Jacovi , Yoëlle S. Maarek , Vladimir Soroka, Livemaps for collection awareness, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, v.56 n.1, p.7-23, January 2002
	Igor Cadez , David Heckerman , Christopher Meek , Padhraic Smyth , Steven White, Model-Based Clustering and Visualization of Navigation Patterns on a Web Site, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, v.7 n.4, p.399-424, October 2003
	Tobias Skog , Lars Erik Holmquist, WebAware: continuous visualization of web site activity in a public space, CHI '00 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 01-06, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands
	Jiyang Chen , Lisheng Sun , Osmar R. Zaïane , Randy Goebel, Visualizing and discovering web navigational patterns, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on the Web and Databases: colocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004, June 17-18, 2004, Paris, France

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
crowds, dynamic visualization, web visualization

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Nelson Minar: colleagues

Judith Donath: colleagues

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