The scale and dynamicity of social media, and interaction between traditional news sources and online communities, has created challenges to information retrieval approaches. Users may have no clear information need or be unable to express it in the appropriate idiom, requiring instead to be oriented in an unfamiliar domain, to explore and learn. We present a novel data-driven visualization, termed Eventscape, that combines time, visual media, mood, and controversy. Formative evaluation highlights the value of emotive facets for rapid evaluation of mixed news and social media topics, and a role for such visualizations as pre-cursors to deeper search. Copyright 2011 ACM.
History
Event
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (19th : 2011 :Scottsdale, AZ)
Pagination
1477 - 1480
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Location
Scottsdale, AZ
Place of publication
Scottsdale, AZ
Start date
2011-11-28
End date
2011-12-01
ISBN-13
9781450306164
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2011, Association for Computing Machinery
Editor/Contributor(s)
Association for Computing Machinery
Title of proceedings
MM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Multimedia Conference and Co-Located Workshops