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Wikipedia

Data Fusion | Meta Search

Information Visualization:  searchCrystal |  MetaCrystal | InfoCrystal

Multimedia Interfaces & Retrieval

Vehicle Navigation

Computer Vision

 

 

Wikipedia

Yasseri, T., Spoerri, A., Graham, M. and Kertesz, J. (2014). The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis. In Fichman P. and Hara N. (Eds.), Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2269392.
Screencast: Using searchCrystal to Visualize Wikipedia Edit Wars
Demo: searchCrystal Visualization of Wikipedoa Edit Wars

In the News - First Wave: Wired, Zeit Online, BBC Mundo, Live Science, Times of Israel, Toronto Star, Huffington Post, Gawker, AOL.com, NBC News, Fox News, Santiago Times, India.com, Malaysia Sun.
Second Wave: MIT Technology Review, Washington Post, CNN, BBC News, The Economist, Der Spiegel, Suedeutsche Zeitung, heise.de, Mashable, GigaOM, Gizmondo, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, The Dish, NBC News, NY Post, Smithsonian Magazine, The Independent, The Telegraph, PC Magazine, Newsy, ABC.es, ORF Digital.Leben.

 

Spoerri, A. (2007). Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia for September 2006 to January 2007. First Monday, Volume 12, Number 4 (April 2007).

 

Spoerri, A. (2007). What is popular on Wikipedia and why? First Monday, Volume 12, Number 4 (April 2007).

Data Fusion | Meta Search

Spoerri, A. (2007). The Benefits of Skimming in Data Fusion. ASIST 2007. Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Milwaukee, WI, November 3-8, 2007.

 

Spoerri, A. (2007). Examining the Authority and Ranking Effects as the Result List Depth used in Data Fusion is Varied. Information Processing & Management. Volume 43, Issue 4 (July 2007) 1044-1058.

 

Spoerri, A. (2007). Using the Structure of Overlap between Search Results to Rank Retrieval Systems Without Relevance Judgments. Information Processing & Management. Volume 43, Issue 4 (July 2007) 1059-1070.

 

Spoerri, A. (2005). How the Overlap Between the Search Results of Different Retrieval Systems Correlates with Document Relevance. ASIST 2005. Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Charlotte, NC, October 28 - November 2, 2005.

Information Visualization

Dalbello, M. & Spoerri, A. (2006). Statistical Representations from Popular Texts for the Ordinary Citizen, 1889-1914. Library & Information Science Research. Vol. 28, No.1 (2006), 83-109.

searchCrystal

Spoerri, A. (2007). Visual Mashup of Text and Media Search Results. IV 2007. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualization. Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-6, 2007.

Spoerri, A. (2007). Coordinating Linear and 2D Displays to Support Exploratory Search. CMV 2007. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization. Zurich, Switzerland, July 2, 2007.

Spoerri, A. (2007). Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia for September 2006 to January 2007. First Monday, Volume 12, Number 4 (April 2007).

MetaCrystal

Spoerri, A. (2006). Visualizing Meta Search Results: Evaluating the MetaCrystal toolset. ASIST 2006. Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Austin, TX, November 3 – 8, 2006.

Spoerri, A. (2004). Toward Enabling Users to Visually Evaluate the Effectiveness of Different Queries or Engines. Journal of Web Engineering. Vol. 3, No.3&4 (2004) 297-313.

Extends: Spoerri, A. (2004). Enabling Users to Visually Evaluate the Effectiveness of Different Queries or Engines. WWW 2004. Workshop on Measuring Web Search Effectiveness: the User Perspective. New York, NY, May 18, 2004.  

Spoerri, A. (2004). Visual Search Editor for Composing Meta Searches. ASIST 2004. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Providence, RI, November 13 – 18, 2004. pp. 373-382.

Spoerri, A. (2004). RankSpiral: Toward Enhancing Search Visualizations. InfoVis 2004. Proceedings of the 10th Annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. Austin, TX, October 10 – 12, 2004. p. 18.

Spoerri, A. (2004). How Visual Query Tools Can Support Users Searching the Internet. IV 2004. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Visualization. London, England, July 14 – 16, 2004. pp 329-334.

Spoerri, A. (2004). Coordinated Views and Tight Coupling to Support Meta Searching. CMV 2004. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization. London, England, July 13, 2004. pp. 39-48.

Spoerri, A. (2004). MetaCrystal: Visualizing the Degree of Overlap Between Search Engines. WWW 2004. Proceedings of the ACM International World Wide Web Conference. New York, NY, May 17 – 22, 2004. pp 378-379.

Spoerri, A. (2004). MetaCrystal: Visual Interface for Meta Searching. CHI 2004. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vienna, Austria, April 24 – 29, 2004. p. 1558.

InfoCrystal

Spoerri, A. (1999). InfoCrystal: A Visual Tool for Information Retrieval. Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. Eds. S. Card, J. Mackinlay and B. Shneiderman. (San Francisco, California: Morgan Kaufmann), pp. 140 - 147. (Originally published in 1993).

Spoerri, A. (1995). InfoCrystal. SIGIR 1995. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Seattle, WA, July 9-13, 1995. (New York, NY: ACM Press), p. 367.

Spoerri, A. (1994). InfoCrystal: Integrating Exact and Partial Matching Approaches Through Visualization. RIAO 1994: Proceedings of the Conference for Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems and Management. New York City, NY, October 11-13, 1994, pp. 687 – 696.

Spoerri, A. (1994). Panel - Information Visualization: The Next Frontier. SIGGRAPH 1994. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Orlando, Florida, July 24-29, 1994. (New York, NY: ACM Press), pp. 485-486.

Spoerri, A. (1994). InfoCrystal. CHI 1994. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, MA, April 24-28, 1994. (New York, NY: ACM Press), pp. 11 – 12.

Spoerri, A. (1993). InfoCrystal: A Visual Tool for Information Retrieval & Management. CIKM 1993. Proceedings of the ACM Conference for Information and Knowledge Management. Washington, DC, November 1-5, 1993. (New York, NY: ACM Press), pp. 11 – 20.

Spoerri A. (1993). InfoCrystal: A Visual Tool for Information Retrieval. VIS 1993. Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference. San Jose, October 25-29, 1993. (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Soc. Press), pp. 150 – 157.

Spoerri, A. (1993). Visual Tools for Information Retrieval. VL 1993. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages. Bergen, Norway, August 24-27, 1993. (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Soc. Press), pp. 160 – 168.

Multimedia Interfaces & Retrieval  
Spoerri, A. (2002). Handwritten Notes as a Visual Interface to Index, Edit and Publish Audio/Video Highlights. Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries - Its Past, Present, and Future (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.2539). Eds. K. Boerner and C. Chen. (Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag), pp. 116 – 130.

Spoerri, A. (2002). Souvenir: Making Audio/Video as Easy to Use as Text. ASIST 2002. Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Philadelphia, PA, November 18-21, 2002. (Medford, NJ: Information Today). Vol. 39: pp. 270 – 278.

Spoerri A. (2002). Souvenir: Flexible Note-taking Tool to Pinpoint and Share Media Highlights. SIGIR 2002. Proceedings of 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Tampere, Finland. 11-15 Aug. 2002. (New York, NY: ACM Press), p.453.
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ICME 2002. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. Lausanne, Switzerland, August 26-29, 2002

Spoerri A. (2002). Souvenir: Flexible Note-Taking Tool to Pinpoint and Share Media in Digital Libraries. JCDL 2002. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Portland, OR, 14-18 July 2002. (New York, NY: ACM Press), p.383.

Vehicle Navigation  
Spoerri, A. (1993). Novel Route Guidance Displays. VNIS 1993. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference for Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems. Ottawa, Canada, October 12-15, 1993. (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Soc. Press), pp. 419 - 422.
Computer Vision
Spoerri, A., Ullman, S. (1987). The Early Detection of Motion Boundaries. Proceedings of the IEEE First International Conference on Computer Vision. London, England, June 8–11, 1987. (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Soc. Press), pp. 209 – 218.