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January 19 |
Social Computing - Social Visualization
Background
Why is social computing and visualization important?
Social Visualization examples:
Loom (http://web.media.mit.edu/~kkarahal/loom/index.html)
Loom 2 (http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/loom2/)
PostHistory (http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/posthistory/index.html)
HistoryFlow (http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/)
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January 21 |
Usenet as Conversation
History in conversation
Readings:
Visualizing
Conversation by Donath, Karahalios, and Viegas
Medium
Effects: Turn-Taking and Back Channels
by Lynn Cherney
Managing
the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities
by Peter Kollock and Marc Smith
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W January
26 |
Usenet as Conversation
Submit a web page describing a visualization of one Usenet Newsgroup
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January 28 |
Usenet as Conversation
Present a working visualization of one Usenet group of your choice.
Class critiques
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February 2 |
Usenet, Blogs, Wikis as a Virtual
Commons
Gestalt Theory - Using Gestalt in Visualization
Color Theory - Color, Transparency, and Perception in Computer
Graphics
Readings:
The
dynamics of mass interaction
by Whittaker, Terveen, Hill, and Cherny
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
Newsgroup
Crowds and Authorlines: Visualizing the Activity of Individuals in
Conversational Cybersapces by
Fernanda Viegas and Marc Smith
Bridging
The Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs
by Herring et
al
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February 4 |
Usenet, Blogs, Wikis as a Virtual
Commons
Natural Language Processing in an conversational text corpus
Visualizing slashdot
Visualizing shared code, documents, projects over time
Readings:
Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
Communities:
Flash forums and forumReader: navigating a new kind of large-scale online
discussion by Dave, Wattenberg, and Muller
Studying
Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow
Visualizations by
Viegas, Wattenberg, and Dave
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9 |
Usenet, Blogs, Wikis as a Virtual
Commons
Submit a web page describing a
visualization of several Usenet groups
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February 11 |
Usenet , Blogs, Wikis as a Virtual
Commons
Present a working visualization of several
Usenet groups
Class critiques
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February 16 |
Visualizing Email
Using Motion and Kinetic Text for Visualization Readings:
PostHistory: Visualizing Email Networks over Time by Fernanda Viegas
Mental Models of Maps by Stanley Milgram
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte
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February 18 |
Visualizing Email
Zooming and Mapping in Visualization
Atlas of Cyberspace
Maps and Cartography
Readings:
Visualizing
Email Archives by Judith Donath
Social
Network Fragments by danah boyd and Jeff Potter
Public
Displays of Connection by Donath and boyd
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| Week 6 |
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23 |
Visualizing
Email
Submit a web page
describing a visualization of your email
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February 25 |
Visualizing Email
Present a working visualization of your email from Cites
Class critiques
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March 2 |
Visualizing Chat/IM, Social Networks
Moving from asynchronous to synchronous
Readings:
Social
translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social
processes by Thomas Erickson and Wendy Kellogg
Supporting
community and building social capital: Social translucence: designing
social infrastructures that make collective activity visible by Thomas
Erickson, Christine Halverson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Mark Laff, Tracee Wolf
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March 4 |
Visualizing Chat/IM, Social Networks
Readings:
The
Network Community: An Introduction
by Barry Wellman
The
Strength of Weak Ties by
Mark. S. Granovetter
Visualizing
Social Networks by Linton C. Freeman
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9 |
Visualizing Chat/IM, Social Networks
Submit a web page describing a
visualization of a social network based on email or chat data
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March 11 |
Visualizing Chat/IM, Social Networks
Present a working visualization of a
social network based on email or chat data
Class critiques
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| Week 9 |
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March 16 |
Visualizing Audio
Using Motion in Visualization
Extracting audio cues
Real time pitch tracking (fft, wft)
Readings:
Visiphone
by Donath, Karahalios, and Viegas
In
Situ Speech Visualization in
Real-Time Interactive Installation and Performance
by Golan Levin and Zachary
Talking
in Circles by
Rodenstein and Donath
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March 18 |
Visualizing Audio
Visualizing Faces with Audio
Readings:
The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?
by Hauser, Chomsky,and Fitch
Social Catalysts:
enhancing communication in mediated spaces by Karrie Karahalios
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March 23 |
Spring Break
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March 25 |
Spring Break
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March 30 |
Visualizing Audio
Submit a web page describing a
visualization of a synchronous or asynchronous audio conversation
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April 1 |
Visualizing Audio
Present a working visualization of a
synchronous or asynchronous audio conversation
Class critiques
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April 6 |
Physics and Visualization
Readings:
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling by Neil Gershenfeld
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April 8 |
Physics and Visualization
Cellular Automata Visualizations
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April 13 |
Physics and Visualization
Submit a web page describing a
visualization of your choice incorporating cellular atomata algorithms
from class
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April 15 |
Physics and Visualization
Present a working visualization incorporating cellular atomata
algorithms from class
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April 20 |
Visualizing Video
Visualizing Video over Time
Readings:
Artifacts
of the Presence Era: Using Information Visualization to Create an
Evocative Souvenir by
Viegas, Perry, Howe, and Donath
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April 22 |
Visualizing Video
Non-photorealistic rendering of images
Integrating Machine Learning for Intelligent Social Interfaces
Readings:
Painterly
Rendering for Video and Interaction by Aaron Hertzmann and Ken Perlin
Telemurals:
Linking Remote Spaces with Social Catalysts by
Karahalios and Donath
NonPhotorealistic Rendering by Gooch and Gooch
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April 27 |
Visualizing Video over Time
Submit a web page describing a
visualization of video synchronously or over time
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April 29 |
Visualizing Video over Time
Present a working
visualization of video synchronously or over time
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May 4 |
Final Project Presentations |
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