Presentation of Visualiz'em: "Show me more about him!"at AVI 2012

1. Visualiz’em
“Show me more about him!”
João Guerreiro
Daniel Gonçalves
@joniguerreiro
http://web.ist.utl.pt/joao.p.guerreiro

2. Increasing storage
capacities

3. Online
Information

4. Personal Information Scattered
among Applications
By shewatchedthesky @Flickr

5. Problem
By Alex E. Proimos @Flickr

6. Opportunity!
By dhammza @Flickr

7. By Matt Hamm @Flickr
Accessible Information Beyond
our Close Relationships

8. Frequent Pursue for
Information about People
By stuant63 @Flickr

9. “I know him, but where from?”

10. The Information is Available!

11. We still have to
Navigate among
Sources
By The Rocketeer @Flickr

12. By bee wolf ray @Flickr

13. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”

14. Unified Visualization that Integrates
Heterogeneous Information about
People from Multiple Sources

15. Richer and Faster Overviews
By opopododo @Flickr

16. Detailed Search when Seeking Specific Information

19. Profile
Photos
Attributes with Item
Relevance/Confidence
Show the Stronger Ones –
Possibility to Extend

22. Interaction Attributes
on MouseOver

23. Interaction Details on Click

24. Synchronized Views

25. Richer and Faster
Overviews
Photo in CC Attribution 2.0 Generic from wilhei55
Find Specific
Information

26. Between-Subjects Study
40 Participants (University Volunteers)
Visualiz’em Usual Apps

27. Comparing Approaches with Personal Information
By spacepleb @Flickr

28. Using Personas in Early Evaluation phases

29. Common Dataset
From a Single Person(a)

30. Search for Unknown People
Avoid Influence of Previous Knowledge

31. Experimental
Conditions

32. Task 1
Learn and Adapt
to Condition
By Sean Dreilinger @Flickr

33. Fill-in-the-Blanks

34. Task 2
Quickly Obtain an Overview about the Person
Search for Fill in the
1 Minute Blanks

35. Task 3
Quick Overview with a Preview of Information Needed
Search for Fill in the
Read Text 1 Minute Blanks

36. Task 4
Searching for Well-Known Specific Information
Read and Fill the Blanks while Searching
Maximum of 15 Minutes

37. Results
By S@Z @Flickr

38. Faster and Richer Overviews
Number of Blanks Correctly Filled (in 22 blanks)
Task 2 Task 3
Visualiz’em Usual Apps Visualiz’em Usual Apps

39. Questionnaire Ratings
Satisfactory Results for Both Conditions;
Better for Visualiz’em
Person Relationship
Overview Overview
20 20
15 2 15
3
10
10 4
5
5
5
0
0
Visualiz'em Usual Apps
Visualiz'em Usual Apps

40. Faster Pursuing Specific Information
Number of Blanks Correctly Filled per Minute (in 24 blanks)
Task 4 – Number of Correct
Blanks per Minute
Visualiz’em Users Found
More Items…
In Less Time
Visualiz’em Usual Apps

41. Questionnaire Ratings
Visualiz’em Significant Advantage in Tool Exploration and
Finding Specific Information
Specific Easy to Explore/ Quick
Information Find Information Exploration
Visualiz’em Usual Apps Visualiz’em Usual Apps Visualiz’em Usual Apps

42. Analyzing Visualiz’em
MouseOver and Click
Frequency
By drewish @Flickr

43. Little Interaction on
1 Minute Tasks

44. Little Interaction on
1 Minute Tasks
Timeline Dominates
Interaction

45. Little Interaction on
1 Minute Tasks
Profile Over
TagCloud
Timeline Dominates
Interaction

46. Questionnaire Ratings
Timeline for Relationship Overview and the Profile for
Person Overview and Specific Information
Timeline TagCloud Profile
Md IQR Md IQR Md IQR
Person Overview 4 2 3.5 2 5 1
Relationship Overview 5 1 4 2 4 1
Specific Information 4 1.75 3 2 5 0.75
Overall Relevance 4 1 4 1.5 5 1

47. Discussion
By ohhector @Flickr

48. Discussion
Facebook and LinkedIn to provide Profile Information; Email and
Facebook See Friendship feature for Interactions
Visualiz’em provides Faster and Richer Overviews about People
and their Relationship with the User
Visualiz’em Faster obtaining Specific Information
Timeline and Profile with good Contributions
TagCloud did NOT Match its Purpose

49. Conclusions

50. Visualiz’em
“Show me more about him!”
João Guerreiro
Daniel Gonçalves
@joniguerreiro
http://web.ist.utl.pt/joao.p.guerreiro By Oberazzi @Flickr

51. Keyword Filtering