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Title: Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces. We contribute the design and implementation of sense.us, a web site supporting asynchronous collaboration across a variety of visualization types. The site supports view sharing, discussion, graphical annotation, and social navigation and includes novel interaction elements. We report the results of user studies of the system, observing emergent patterns of social data analysis, including cycles of observation and hypothesis, and the complementary roles of social navigation and data-driven exploration.

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Authors: Vigas, Fernanda; Heer, Jeffrey; Wattenberg, Martin

Periodical (Full): Communications of the ACM

Issue: 1

Volume: 52

Pages: 1029-1038

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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