Visualizing the crowds at a web site

  • Authors:
  • Nelson Minar;Judith Donath

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Medial Lab, Cambridge, MA;MIT Medial Lab, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

A visualization of the crowds of people visiting a web site is developed. Visitors are drawn as icons on a map of the web site; the animation of people's movements conveys the crowd dynamics of visitors. The visualization combines three pieces: a map of the web site, an iconic representation of individual visitors, and an interpretation of the dynamics of visitor patterns to show crowd phenomena. The effect is to make a web site look like a social, active space.