A Visual backchannel for large-scale events

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1129-1138

  Dörk, Marian ^a   Gruen, Daniel ^b   Williamson, Carey ^a   Carpendale, Sheelagh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

backchannel; events; information retrieval; information visualization; microblogging; multiple views; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

BACK CHANNELS; EVENTS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MICROBLOGGING; MULTIPLE VIEWS;

DISASTERS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78149247056     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.129     Document Type: Article

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