Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Gruppe 03 - Aufgabe 3 - Technique: Difference between revisions
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=== Visual Mapping === | === Visual Mapping === | ||
every person who is participating in the chat is represented with a coloured circle. | *chat interface | ||
every person who is participating in the chat is represented with a coloured circle, the color is unique for each user. | |||
the messages of this user appears in this circle. | the messages of this user appears in this circle. | ||
the frequence of messages, who activ a user is, is shown this way, the circle gets bigger and brighter with every message and smaller and starts to fade within periodes of silence, but it is still visuable. | the frequence of messages, who activ a user is, is shown this way, the circle gets bigger and brighter with every message and smaller and starts to fade within periodes of silence, but it is still visuable. | ||
the different topics are shown as groups of circles, because the user cann only "hear" others in a range around the own position. | the different topics are shown as groups of circles, because the user cann only "hear" others in a range around the own position. | ||
*archive interface | |||
in the chat archive interface of chat circles, again color is used to identify users. | |||
=== Interaction === | === Interaction === | ||
Revision as of 14:04, 27 November 2006
Chat Circles
Description
- Chat Circles is a Technique for vizualising Chats.
Mainly to get an better overview of the social interactions taking place in the chat.
Visual Mapping
- chat interface
every person who is participating in the chat is represented with a coloured circle, the color is unique for each user. the messages of this user appears in this circle. the frequence of messages, who activ a user is, is shown this way, the circle gets bigger and brighter with every message and smaller and starts to fade within periodes of silence, but it is still visuable. the different topics are shown as groups of circles, because the user cann only "hear" others in a range around the own position.
- archive interface
in the chat archive interface of chat circles, again color is used to identify users.
Interaction
User-Interaction
the user can choose the color of his/her circle. the user can move the own circle around.
Use of Interactions
- Navigation
- Zooming
- Highlighting
- Dynamic Querying
- Selection
- Brushing
Loom
Description
References
- [Donath et al., 1999] Donath, J., Karahalios, K., and Viegas, F.: Visualizing Conversation. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) - Volume 2, page 2023. IEEE Computer Society, 1999.http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aigner/teaching/infovis_ue/papers/ConversationLandscapes_VisualizeConv.pdf