CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Dynamic queries for information exploration: an implementation and evaluation
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations
VL '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 4 - Volume 4
Exploratory search: from finding to understanding
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
Exploring blog archives with interactive visualization
AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
CIT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology - Volume 02
Visualizing Blog Archives to Explore Content- and Context-Related Interdependencies
WI-IAT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
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Blogs are widely used today to publish information on a regular basis. However, users have difficulty in exploring their content and in discovering relevant information. This is due, among other things, to blogs rigid structure, with very long pages, and to the lack of mechanisms for effective navigation and exploration. To overcome these problems, we developed an exploration tool, to help users navigate, browse and visualize blogs. It was developed based on the following four design principles i) a blog should provide an overview of its activity and content to help users identify publication patterns and relevant entries; ii) blogs should present rich compact representations of entries to help readers anticipate the content of posts; iii) comments should have a relevant role, since they convey the social component of the blog; iv) blogs should offer an interactive filtering mechanism to help users explore and find relevant posts. A comparative evaluation with users confirmed the validity of the design principles, since our solution was more efficient, effective and usable than the usual blog interface and the Google Reader.