Visual analytics for multimodal social network analysis: A design study with social scixentists

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2032-2041

  Ghani, Sohaib ^a   Kwon, Bum Chul ^b   Lee, Seungyoon ^c   Yi, Ji Soo ^b   Elmqvist, Niklas ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design study; interaction; multimodal graphs; node link diagrams; qualitative evaluation; user centered design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN STUDIES; INTERACTION; MULTI-MODAL; NODE-LINK DIAGRAMS; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DESIGN; TOOLS; VISUALIZATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886677438     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.223     Document Type: Article

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