Visualizing translation variation: Shakespeare's Othello
ISVC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part I
Rolled-out Wordles: A Heuristic Method for Overlap Removal of 2D Data Representatives
Computer Graphics Forum
Semantic Wordification of Document Collections
Computer Graphics Forum
Seeing beyond reading: a survey on visual text analytics
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Semantic-preservingword clouds by seam carving
EuroVis'11 Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
Fisheye word cloud for temporal sentiment exploration
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interactive by-example design of artistic packing layouts
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
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Among the multifarious tag-clouding techniques, Wordle stands out to the community by providing an aesthetic layout, eliciting the emergence of the participatory culture and usage of tag-clouding in the artistic creations. In this paper, we introduce ManiWordle, a Wordle-based visualization tool that revamps interactions with the layout by supporting custom manipulations. ManiWordle allows people to manipulate typography, color, and composition not only for the layout as a whole, but also for the individual words, enabling them to have better control over the layout result. We first describe our design rationale along with the interaction techniques for tweaking the layout. We then present the results both from the preliminary usability study and from the comparative study between ManiWordle and Wordle. The results suggest that ManiWordle provides higher user satisfaction and an efficient method of creating the desired "art work," harnessing the power behind the ever-increasing popularity of Wordle.