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Tenth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'06)
Plot-polling: Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Online Discussions
London, England
July 05-July 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2602-0
Alex Ivanov, Simon Fraser University,
Thomas Erickson, Simon Fraser University
Dianne Cyr, Simon Fraser University
Online communities are extremely popular; yet most of them still rely primarily on text for knowledge creation and communication. This paper describes a graphical webpoll prototype-a mix of information, knowledge, and social visualization-that has been designed and deployed in an online discussion board on herbal antidepressants. The prototype, hereby named the "plot-poll", allows users to collaboratively construct a sequence of mini histograms that indicate experienced mood change during a ten week period. The pilot study shows that plot-polling is quite effective in engaging low-frequency contributors to participate. More work is required to support these findings, and reveal whether the graphic format is able to provide affective qualities to the user experience.
Citation:
Alex Ivanov, Thomas Erickson, Dianne Cyr, "Plot-polling: Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Online Discussions," iv, pp.205-210, Tenth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'06), 2006
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