Flash forums and ForumReader: Navigating a new kind of large-scale online discussion

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 232-241

  Dave, Kushal ^a,b   Wattenberg, Martin ^a   Muller, Michael ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Large scale conversations; Mass interaction; Persistent conversations; Prototype; Thumbnail interface; User interface; User study; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA REDUCTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; NAVIGATION; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION INTERFACES; LARGE-SCALE CONVERSATIONS; MASS INTERACTION; PERSISTANT CONVERSATIONS; THUMBNAIL INTERFACE; USER STUDY;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 21744450407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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