Conversation map: An interface for very large-scale conversations

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 73-92

  Sack, Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Conversation analysis; Discourse analysis; Electronic mail; Interface design; Navigation; News groups; Semantic networks; Social networks; Summarization; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034435015     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2000.11045652     Document Type: Article

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