Title :
Interactive poster - SocialRank: An ego- and time-centric workflow for relationship identification
Author :
Montemayor, Jaime ; Diehl, Chris ; Pekala, Mike ; Patrone, David
Author_Institution :
Milton Eisenhower Res. Center, Johns Hopkins Univ. Appl. Phys. Lab., Laurel, MD
Abstract :
From instant messaging and email to wikis and blogs, millions of individuals are generating content that reflects their relationships with others in the world, both online and offline. Since communication artifacts are recordings of life events, we can gain insights into the social attributes and structures of the people within this communication history. In this paper, we describe SocialRank, an ego- and time-centric workflow for identifying social relationships in an email corpus. This workflow includes four high-level tasks: discovery, validation, annotation and dissemination. SocialRank combines relationship ranking algorithms with timeline, social network diagram, and multidimensional scaling visualization techniques to support these tasks.
Keywords :
electronic mail; social networking (online); SocialRank; communication artifacts; email corpus; instant messaging; interactive poster; multidimensional scaling visualization techniques; relationship identification; relationship ranking algorithms; social attributes; social network diagram; time-centric workflow; Algorithm design and analysis; Blogs; Data visualization; Electronic mail; History; Information systems; Laboratories; Multidimensional systems; Physics; Social network services; H.4.3 [Information Systems]: Communications Applications—Information browsers; H.5.2 [Information Systems]: Information Interfaces and Presentation—User interfaces; I.3.6 [Computing Methodologies]: Methodology and Techniques—Interaction techniques;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2008. VAST '08. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Columbus, OH
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2935-6
DOI :
10.1109/VAST.2008.4677375
