New Forms of Interaction With Hierarchically Structured Events.
Sven Buschbeck, Anthony Jameson, Tanja Schneeberger · 2011
Abstract. Research in the semantic web community has given rise to some pow-erful methods for visualizing events and related media—mostly in terms of inter-active timelines—and for enabling users to interact with these visualizations. The present paper aims to advance this line of research in two ways: (a) by devel-oping interactive visualizations of event hierarchies of essentially arbitrary depth and size, which are more natural than timelines in the case of complex events that comprise subevents at various levels; and (b) by supporting forms of interaction that go beyond the usual activities of browsing and searching for events and re-lated media, supporting additionally the sharing and annotation of media and the provision of interactive illustrations of narrative texts.