Exploring History with Narrative Timelines

Authors:
Robert B. Allen;Sumanth Nalluru
Affiliations:
Co llege of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA 19104;Co llege of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA 19104
Venue:
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2009 on ConferenceUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We develop novel timeline interfaces which separate the events in timelines into threads and then allow users to select among them. This interface is illustrated with five threads describing the causes of the American Civil War. In addition to selecting each of the threads, the sequence of events it describes can be played. That is, the user can step through the sequence of events and get a description of each event in the context of its thread. In addition, many of the events have links to more focused timelines and to external resources such as Wikipedia.