SEPIA: a cooperative hypermedia authoring environment
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
Browsing the structure of multimedia stories
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Guidelines for using multiple views in information visualization
AVI '00 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-Based Information Organization
Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-Based Information Organization
Adaptive HyperText and Hypermedia
Adaptive HyperText and Hypermedia
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
Causal Reasoning about Aircraft Accidents
SAFECOMP '00 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
A focus-context browser for multiple timelines
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Exploring History with Narrative Timelines
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2009 on ConferenceUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Extracting and aggregating information about situations over time to present the context of news
Extracting and aggregating information about situations over time to present the context of news
How historians use historical newspapers
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Interactive causal schematics for qualitative scientific explanations
ICADL'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: implementing strategies and sharing experiences
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History may be seen as a tapestry of interwoven events. The discourse structure of that tapestry may be identified and used to support visualization for examining and interacting with the tapestry of history. Specifically, we propose temporally constrained causal relationships as a key for organizing that tapestry. Because Events occur at different levels of granularity and similar ones may occur with cumulative effect, we introduce Trends. Trends are first-class objects; that is, in this model Trends may be causes of Events. To facilitate interaction with a rich tapestry of complex historical events such as the American Civil War, we also introduce Threads. These are chains of Events, and presentations of them may be considered a type of narrative. We describe a panel-oriented visualization interface that shows causal Threads of Events and Trends leading up to the Civil War. This initial prototype is intended to present history at the level of an intermediate textbook. Finally, we introduce a semi-formal notation for describing Events, Threads, and Trends, and propose directions for future research to refine the prototype that may enable broader, deeper, more flexible, and more complete exploration/presentation of historical materials.