OntoStarFish: visualization of collaboration networks using starfields, ontologies and fisheye views

  • Authors:
  • Alfredo Ramos;J. Alfredo Sánchez;Federico Hernández-Bolaños

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México;Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México;Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd Mexican Workshop on Human Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We introduce OntoStarFish, a user interface designed for detecting, visualizing and exploring implicit collaboration networks. As its name suggests, OntoStarFish is based upon the use of multiple fisheye views on starfields for which the axis are determined by an ontological organization of attributes associated to potential collaborators. We describe this technique as applied to data on collaboration networks inferred from distributed collections of documents and report on results of a preliminary usability study of a working prototype.