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CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

SESSION: Short talks-Specialized section: usability of large scale public systems table of contents

Pages: 742 - 743

Year of Publication: 2003

ISBN:1-58113-637-4

Authors

Martin Wattenberg	IBM Research, Cambridge, MA
David Millen	IBM Research, Cambridge, MA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
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): 11, Downloads (12 Months): 54, Citation Count: 6

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ABSTRACT

We present a new interface for large-scale online conversations. Our technique, the Conversation Thumbnail, differs from existing discussion interfaces in two respects. First, it employs a focus+context visualization technique that exploits message-level metadata to provide an easily navigable overview of a discussion. Second, it helps reduce conversational redundancy and improve coherence via a fast automatic search mechanism that highlights related messages during message composition. The Conversation Thumbnail Viewer is currently implemented as a Java applet that can be applied to a variety of discussion data sources.

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CITED BY 6

	Kushal Dave , Martin Wattenberg , Michael Muller, Flash forums and forumReader: navigating a new kind of large-scale online discussion, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, November 06-10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA
	Andrew J. Cowell , Jereme Haack , Adrienne Andrew, Retrospective analysis of communication events: understanding the dynamics of collaborative multi-party discourse, Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Analyzing Conversations in Text and Speech, p.62-70, June 08-08, 2006, New York City, New York
	David R. Millen , Michael J. Muller , Werner Geyer , Eric Wilcox , Beth Brownholtz, Patterns of media use in an activity-centric collaborative environment, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA
	Francis Lam , Judith Donath, Seascape and volcano: visualizing online discussions using timeless motion, CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, OR, USA
	A.J. Bernheim Brush , Xiaoqing Wang , Tammara Combs Turner , Marc A. Smith, Assessing differential usage of usenet social accounting meta-data, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA
	Andrew J. Cowell , Michelle L. Gregory , Joe Bruce , Jereme Haack , Doug Love , Stuart Rose , Adrienne H. Andrew, Understanding the dynamics of collaborative multi-party discourse, Information Visualization, v.5 n.4, p.250-259, December 2006

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Keywords:
computer mediated communication, social Computing and social navigation, virtual community and community computing, visualization, world wide web and hypermedia

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