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Mobile topigraphy: large-scale tag cloud visualization for mobiles

Mobile topigraphy: large-scale tag cloud visualization for mobiles WWW 2011 “ Poster March 28 “April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India Mobile Topigraphy: Large-scale Tag Cloud Visualization for Mobiles Tatsushi Matsubayashi [email protected] Katsuhiko Ishiguro [email protected] Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho,Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237 Japan ABSTRACT We introduce a new mobile topigraphy system that uses the contour map metaphor to display large-scale tag clouds. We introduce the technical issues for topigraphy, and recent requirements for and developments in mobile interfaces. We also present some applications for our mobile topigraphy system and describe the assessment on two initial applications. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4.3 [INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS]: Communications Applications ”Information browsers General Terms Design, Experimentation Figure 1: Wikipedia Topigraph of the people known to Keywords tag cloud, Android OS, Wikipedia, graph drawing 2. TOPIGRAPHY 1. INTRODUCTION Topigraphy ( œtopic  + œtopography ) [1] is a method for displaying a large-scale tag cloud as a two-dimensional contour map. Topigraphy uses a topographic image as the background against which the tag clouds are displayed: tag œheights  represent the centrality of the concept, and the two-dimensional layout addresses tag similarity. Users may nd unexpected but interesting and novel information by exploring or wandering over the topigraphic map (topigraph). Serendipity http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Mobile topigraphy: large-scale tag cloud visualization for mobiles

Matsubayashi, Tatsushi; Ishiguro, Katsuhiko
Association for Computing Machinery — Mar 28, 2011
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WWW 2011 “ Poster March 28 “April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India Mobile Topigraphy: Large-scale Tag Cloud Visualization for Mobiles Tatsushi Matsubayashi [email protected] Katsuhiko Ishiguro [email protected] Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho,Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237 Japan ABSTRACT We introduce a new mobile topigraphy system that uses the contour map metaphor to display large-scale tag clouds. We introduce the technical issues for topigraphy, and recent requirements for and developments in mobile interfaces. We also present some applications for our mobile topigraphy system and describe the assessment on two initial applications. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4.3 [INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS]: Communications Applications ”Information browsers General Terms Design, Experimentation Figure 1: Wikipedia Topigraph of the people known to Keywords tag cloud, Android OS, Wikipedia, graph drawing 2. TOPIGRAPHY 1. INTRODUCTION Topigraphy ( œtopic  + œtopography ) [1] is a method for displaying a large-scale tag cloud as a two-dimensional contour map. Topigraphy uses a topographic image as the background against which the tag clouds are displayed: tag œheights  represent the centrality of the concept, and the two-dimensional layout addresses tag similarity. Users may nd unexpected but interesting and novel information by exploring or wandering over the topigraphic map (topigraph). Serendipity

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