CiteAware: Visual Group Awareness for a Reference Sharing System
Dhruba J. Baishya, Peter L. Brusilovsky · 2009
Publication sharing portals, such as CiteULike and BibSonomy are very popular among research community. Users create interest groups, participate in existing groups, share papers and tag contents. With increasing number of groups, members, contributions and tags, it is very difficult to keep track of all the group activities and extract useful knowledge out of user contributions. In this paper, we present our ongoing work on CiteAware – a visual group awareness system for CiteULike. Our system collects most recent activity timestamps of a user's public groups or a group's participating members, transforming them into an easily perceivable holistic visualization. A preliminary user study results are discussed here. Author Keywords Visualization, user interfaces, asynchronous collaborative awareness, social navigation, situational awareness, exploration awareness, user activities, tags.