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Fernanda B. Viegas

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Fernanda B. Viegas

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Fernanda Viégas is a graduate student in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her research focuses on the visualization of the traces people leave as they interact online. Some of her projects explore email archives, newsgroup conversations, and the editing history of wiki pages. She is particularly fascinated by the stories that these social archives tell and the patterns they contain.

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Heer, Jeffrey, Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2009): Voyagers and voyeurs: Supporting asynchronous collaborative visualization. In Communications of the ACM, 52 (1) pp. 87-97

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Danis, Catalina M., Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin and Kriss, Jesse (2008): Your place or mine?: visualization as a community component. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 275-284. Available online

“Many Eyes is a web site that provides collaborative visualization services, allowing users to upload data sets, visualize them, and comment on each other's visualizations. This paper describes a first interview-based study of Many Eyes users, which sheds light on user motivation for creating public visualizations. Users talked about data for many reasons, from scientific research to political advocacy to hobbies. One consistent theme across these different scenarios is the use of visualizations in communication and collaborative practices. Collaboration and conversation, however, often took place outside the site, leaving no traces on Many Eyes itself. In other words, despite spurring significant social activity, Many Eyes is not so much an online community as a "community component" which users insert into pre-existing online social systems.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin, Heer, Jeffrey and Agrawala, Maneesh (2008): Social data analysis workshop. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 3977-3980. Available online

“This workshop addresses a new online phenomenon: social data analysis, that is, collective analysis of data supported by social interaction. The recent democratization of data sources on the Internet -- from mandated publication of government-generated data to scientific repositories of experimental data sets -- has enabled a new kind of web site where users upload and collaboratively analyze the most varied sorts of data. So far, most of these sites have relied on visualization as an intrinsic part of their analytical arsenal. The goals of this workshop are to: * Bring together, for the first time, the social data analysis community * Examine the design of social data analysis sites today * Discuss the role that visualizations play in social data analysis * Explore how users are utilizing the various sites that allow them to exchange data-based insights.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2008): Tag clouds and the case for vernacular visualization. In Interactions, 15 (4) pp. 49-52

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin, McKeon, Matthew M., Ham, Frank van and Kriss, Jesse (2008): Harry Potter and the Meat-Filled Freezer: A Case Study of Spontaneous Usage of Visualization Tools. In: HICSS 2008 - 41st Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 7-10 January, 2008, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. p. 159. Available online

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Heer, Jeffrey, Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2007): Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 1029-1038. Available online

“This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces. We contribute the design and implementation of sense.us, a web site supporting asynchronous collaboration across a variety of visualization types. The site supports view sharing, discussion, graphical annotation, and social navigation and includes novel interaction elements. We report the results of user studies of the system, observing emergent patterns of social data analysis, including cycles of observation and hypothesis, and the complementary roles of social navigation and data-driven exploration.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin and McKeon, Matthew M. (2007): The Hidden Order of Wikipedia. In: Schuler, Douglas (ed.) OCSC 2007 - Online Communities and Social Computing - Second International Conference July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 445-454. Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B. and Wattenberg, Martin (2007): Artistic Data Visualization: Beyond Visual Analytics. In: Schuler, Douglas (ed.) OCSC 2007 - Online Communities and Social Computing - Second International Conference July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 182-191. Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B. (2007): The Visual Side of Wikipedia. In: HICSS 2007 - 40th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 3-6 January, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. p. 85. Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin, Kriss, Jesse and Ham, Frank van (2007): Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia. In: HICSS 2007 - 40th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 3-6 January, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. p. 78. Available online

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Wattenberg, Martin, Viegas, Fernanda B. and Hollenbach, Katherine J. (2007): Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms. In: Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) DEGAS 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services September 11th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp. 272-287. Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Golder, Scott and Donath, Judith S. (2006): Visualizing email content: portraying relationships from conversational histories. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 979-988. Available online

“We present Themail, a visualization that portrays relationships using the interaction histories preserved in email archives. Using the content of exchanged messages, it shows the words that characterize one's correspondence with an individual and how they change over the period of the relationship. This paper describes the interface and content-parsing algorithms in Themail. It also presents the results from a user study where two main interaction modes with the visualization emerged: exploration of "big picture" trends and themes in email (haystack mode) and more detail-oriented exploration (needle mode). Finally, the paper discusses the limitations of the content parsing approach in Themail and the implications for further research on email content visualization.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Wattenberg, Martin and Dave, Kushal (2004): Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations. In: Dykstra-Erickson, Elizabeth and Tscheligi, Manfred (eds.) Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. pp. 575-582. Available online

“The Internet has fostered an unconventional and powerful style of collaboration: "wiki" web sites, where every visitor has the power to become an editor. In this paper we investigate the dynamics of Wikipedia, a prominent, thriving wiki. We make three contributions. First, we introduce a new exploratory data analysis tool, the history flow visualization, which is effective in revealing patterns within the wiki context and which we believe will be useful in other collaborative situations as well. Second, we discuss several collaboration patterns highlighted by this visualization tool and corroborate them with statistical analysis. Third, we discuss the implications of these patterns for the design and governance of online collaborative social spaces. We focus on the relevance of authorship, the value of community surveillance in ameliorating antisocial behavior, and how authors with competing perspectives negotiate their differences.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B., boyd, danah, Nguyen, David H., Potter, Jeffrey and Donath, Judith S. (2004): Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments. In: HICSS 2004 2004. . Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B. and Smith, Marc A. (2004): Newsgroup Crowds and AuthorLines: Visualizing the Activity of Individuals in Conversational Cyberspaces. In: HICSS 2004 2004. . Available online

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Viegas, Fernanda B., Perry, Ethan, Howe, Ethan and Donath, Judith S. (2004): Artifacts of the Presence Era: Using Information Visualization to Create an Evocative Souvenir. In: InfoVis 2004 - 10th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 10-12 October, 2004, Austin, TX, USA. pp. 105-111. Available online

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Donath, Judith S. and Viegas, Fernanda B. (2002): The chat circles series: explorations in designing abstract graphical communication interfaces. In: Proceedings of DIS02: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques 2002. pp. 359-369. Available online

“We have been creating a series of graphical chat programs designed to foster social interaction and expressive communication. We started with a spare, minimalist interface and in subsequent programs have modified its fundamental features: background space, individual representation, movement implementation, communication channels, and history depiction. The resulting family of graphical chat programs share many interface features but differ significantly in their feel and function. This paper examines the variations among the interfaces and discusses their implications for social interaction.”

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Viegas, Fernanda B. and Donath, Judith S. (1999): Chat Circles. In: Altom, Mark W. and Williams, Marian G. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 99 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. pp. 9-16. Available online

“Although current online chat environments provide new opportunities for communication, they are quite constrained in their ability to convey many important pieces of social information, ranging from the number of participants in a conversation to the subtle nuances of expression that enrich face to face speech. In this paper we present Chat Circles, an abstract graphical interface for synchronous conversation. Here, presence and activity are made manifest by changes in color and form, proximity-based filtering intuitively breaks large groups into conversational clusters, and the archives of a conversation are made visible through an integrated history interface. Our goal in this work is to create a richer environment for online discussions.”

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Donath, Judith S., Karahalios, Karrie and Viegas, Fernanda B. (1999): Visualizing Conversation. In: HICSS 1999 1999. . Available online

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Donath, Judith S., Karahalios, Karrie and Viegas, Fernanda B. (1999): Visualizing Conversation. In J. Computer-Mediated Communication, 4 (4)

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Publication period:1999-2009
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Judith S. Donath:23
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