SNA.III.2Can CI help do better SN research?

User Interfaces & Collaboration Services

C. Plaisant (lead), B. Paley, D. Cox, C. Mueller, E. Adar, M. Piasecki, R. Holmes, D. Brandon, A. Wang

Report from SNAC breakout sessionNovember 3, 2005

• UI needs for the CI (be a member of the community)

• UI needs for SNA (do analysis)

UI for the CI

• r D• Hire a professional UI expert

(also support staff later)• Lots of needs are common with other CI

(e.g. registration or most collaboration tools)

• What’s available? and by the way I have a Mac and I have a dataset with a million nodes…

• Make visible what is invisible e.g. how public is this space? Privacy policies etc.

UI for the SNA

Know thy user…

• Successful stories are focused on particular user groups>> Involve users in design and development

• SNA is a methodology that spans multi disciplines (e.g. bio informatics, publications, DHS)

• Datasets are very different in diff domains• Range of user types

SNA Researchers/ avid SNA users/ intermittent or novice users

Know the task/process

Seems to be a common SNA processi.e. Data cleaning, extract, crude layout, design map,

start again, and again Entity resolution, dealing with missing data, uncertainty

Define it, facilitate it, teach it

Tools needed- SNA bibliographic DL (ref only)

>> bibliometric >> delineation

- Map of SNA community (use your own tools!)- Present usage stats(that map is a good way to attract users)

- Infrastructure to submit images and videos

- Graph layout and interaction- Dynamic networks - studying change over time

- Collaborative Visualization Tools synchronous or asynchronous – annotations etc.dealing with heterogeneous levels of expertise…

- Helping people cross domain boundaries- Diff ontologies, glossaries

Tools needed

• History keeping of the analysis record, replay, annotate, edit, share

• Multilevel interfaces

from: simple GUIs to : you own code

For scale

Components for SNA

itinerary

Simpler UI

After a while…

Add own code

Add own code

Add own code

other

• Evaluation– How to measure insight / discoveries?– Longitudinal studies

• Universal Access (range of expertise, various hardware, disabilities)

• Extra: next slide is if we want to discuss a killer “adoption app” i.e. something that attracts a lot of people, get them excited and satisfied they learned something quickly while having fun…

Catherine

http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager

Shows that LOTS of people refer to this system in their page in just a few months..