Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks Export

@article{citeulike:393477, abstract = {Recent years have witnessed the dramatic popularity of online social networking services, in which millions of members publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations. Guided by ethnographic research of these online communities, we have designed and implemented a visualization system for playful end-user exploration and navigation of large-scale online social networks. Our design builds upon familiar node-link network layouts to contribute customized techniques for exploring connectivity in large graph structures, supporting visual search and analysis, and automatically identifying and visualizing community structures. Both public installation and controlled studies of the system provide evidence of the system's usability, capacity for facilitating discovery, and potential for fun and engaged social activity.}, author = {Heer, Jeffrey and Boyd, Danah}, citeulike-article-id = {393477}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://jheer.org/publications/2005-Vizster-InfoVis.pdf}, keywords = {networks, social}, posted-at = {2006-09-17 15:18:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks}, url = {http://jheer.org/publications/2005-Vizster-InfoVis.pdf} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:393477 L3 - citeulike-article-id:393477 N2 - Recent years have witnessed the dramatic popularity of online social networking services, in which millions of members publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations. Guided by ethnographic research of these online communities, we have designed and implemented a visualization system for playful end-user exploration and navigation of large-scale online social networks. Our design builds upon familiar node-link network layouts to contribute customized techniques for exploring connectivity in large graph structures, supporting visual search and analysis, and automatically identifying and visualizing community structures. Both public installation and controlled studies of the system provide evidence of the system's usability, capacity for facilitating discovery, and potential for fun and engaged social activity. TI - Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks KW - networks KW - social AU - Heer, Jeffrey AU - Boyd, Danah UR - http://jheer.org/publications/2005-Vizster-InfoVis.pdf ER -