StickViz: A new visualization tool for phenomenon-based k-neighbors searches in geosocial networking services

Kyoung Sook Kim, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, Yasushi Kiyoki

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Abstract

Geosocial networking services allow users to create, use, and share information and to communicate with other people regarding geographical locations and time. Geosocial networking services generate large amounts of spatiotemporal contents that mainly include information about personal interests, activities, or real-life experiences. This paper discusses a new geovisualization tool named StickViz that helps retrieve k-neighbors by considering the spatial, temporal, and thematic interests of users over geosocial networking services. In particular, we define phenomena of interest for combining user interests with respect to location, time, and topic and propose a phenomenon-based k-neighbor query to find people having similar interests in spatial, temporal, and thematical dimensions. Moreover, we use a three-dimensional (two spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension) space so that the queries and spatiotemporal contents can be represented in the same space. Finally, we present a prototype of StickViz to navigate spatiotemporal contents and search k-neighbors on the basis of the predefined phenomena of interest through three-dimensional visual interfaces.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Web Technologies and Applications - Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2010
Pages22-28
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Asia Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2010 - Busan, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2010 Apr 62010 Apr 8

Publication series

NameAdvances in Web Technologies and Applications - Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2010

Other

Other12th International Asia Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2010
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityBusan
Period10/4/610/4/8

Keywords

  • K-neighbors
  • Phenomena of interest
  • Spatiotemporal contents
  • Three-dimensional visualization
  • User interests

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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