Monitoring academic conferences: Real-time visualization and retrospective analysis of backchannel conversations

Proceedings of the 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics, SocialInformatics 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 62-69

  Sopan, Awalin ^a   Rey, P J ^b   Butler, Brian ^b   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

social network; twitter; visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES; ITS APPLICATIONS; NUMBER OF PEOPLES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZED TOOLS; TWITTER;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84881043183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialInformatics.2012.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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