SNA.III.2 Can CI help do better SN research? User Interfaces & Collaboration Services C. Plaisant (lead), B. Paley, D. Cox, C. Mueller, E. Adar, M. Piasecki, R. Holmes, D. Brandon, A. Wang Report from SNAC breakout session November 3, 2005

UI needs for the CI (be a member of the community) UI needs for SNA (do analysis)

UI for the CI r D Hire a professional UI expert (also support staff later) Lots of needs are common with other CI (e.g. registration or most collaboration tools) What’s available? and by the way I have a Mac and I have a dataset with a million nodes… Make visible what is invisible e.g. how public is this space? Privacy policies etc.

UI for the SNA

Know thy user… Successful stories are focused on particular user groups >> Involve users in design and development SNA is a methodology that spans multi disciplines (e.g. bio informatics, publications, DHS) Datasets are very different in diff domains Range of user types SNA Researchers/ avid SNA users/ intermittent or novice users

Know the task/process Seems to be a common SNA process i.e. Data cleaning, extract, crude layout, design map, start again, and again Entity resolution, dealing with missing data, uncertainty Define it, facilitate it, teach it

Tools needed -SNA bibliographic DL (ref only) >> bibliometric >> delineation -Map of SNA community (use your own tools!) -Present usage stats (that map is a good way to attract users) - Infrastructure to submit images and videos -Graph layout and interaction -Dynamic networks - studying change over time -Collaborative Visualization Tools synchronous or asynchronous – annotations etc. dealing with heterogeneous levels of expertise… -Helping people cross domain boundaries -Diff ontologies, glossaries

Tools needed History keeping of the analysis record, replay, annotate, edit, share Multilevel interfaces from: simple GUIs to : you own code

For scale Components for SNA

itinerary

Simpler UI

After a while…

Add own code

other Evaluation –How to measure insight / discoveries? –Longitudinal studies Universal Access (range of expertise, various hardware, disabilities)

Extra: next slide is if we want to discuss a killer “adoption app” i.e. something that attracts a lot of people, get them excited and satisfied they learned something quickly while having fun… Catherine

Shows that LOTS of people refer to this system in their page in just a few months..