InfoVis 683: Discussion of Week 9 Readings (Nov 7, 2011)
Readings Assigned: Social vis
- Petra Neumann, Annie Tat, Torre Zuk and Sheelagh Carpendale. KeyStrokes: Personalizing Typed Text with Visualization. In Proceedings of Eurographics (EuroVis~2007). Eurographics, pages 43-50, 2007.
- The Streams of Our Lives: Visualizing Listening Histories in Context. Dominikus Baur, Frederik Seiffert, Michael Sedlmair, Sebastian Boring
- A Visual Backchannel for Large-Scale Events. Marian Dörk, Daniel Gruen, Carey Williamson, Sheelagh Carpendale
Notes from
Petra Neumann, Annie Tat, Torre Zuk and Sheelagh Carpendale. KeyStrokes: Personalizing Typed Text with Visualization. In Proceedings of Eurographics (EuroVis~2007). Eurographics, pages 43-50, 2007.
by Ahmed Ezzelden
We know that handwriting contains personal characteristics but this paper capture the gab of typed text by embodying some (characteristics or) elements of typed-text, by making use/analysis of things like speed of typing and the period between keystrokes.
Some people find it fun just to try to create funny images so that people tried to express themselves with this visualization by even typing non-sense text.
You can also encode a message and send it to others.
The visualization also proposes some ideas about the information that can presented from visualizing keystrokes like the frequency of some words or characters as this can be presented in many ways, by coloring for example.
This paper also contains a user study that gives statistical information about the feedback of some people who tried this visualization and even about the benefit that might arise from this visualization.