Computer Science
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Temporally-connected personal blogs contain voluminous textual content, presenting challenges in re-visiting and reflecting on experiences. Other data repositories have benefited from natural language processing (NLP) and interactive visualizations (VIS) to support exploration, but little is known about how these techniques could be used with blogs to present experiences and support multimodal interaction with blogs, particularly for authors. This paper presents the effect of reorganization—reorganizing the large blog set with NLP and presenting abstract topics with VIS—to support novel re-visitation experiences to blogs. The BlogCloud tool, a blog re-visitation tool that reorganizes blog paragraphs around user-searched keywords, implements reorganization and similarity-based content grouping. Through a public use session with bloggers who wrote about extended hikes, we observed the effect of NLP-based reorganization in delivering novel re-visitation experiences. Findings suggest that the re-presented topics provide new reflection materials and re-visitation paths, enabling interaction with symbolic items in memory.
Publication Title
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
Publication Date
2019
Volume
3
Issue
4
DOI
10.3390/mti3040066
Keywords
blog, natural language processing, re-visitation, visualization
Repository Citation
Niu, Shuo; McCrickard, D. Scott; Stelter, Timothy L.; Dix, Alan; and Taylor, G. Don, "Reorganize your blogs: Supporting blog re-visitation with natural language processing and visualization" (2019). Computer Science. 167.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_computer_sciences/167
APA Citation
Niu, S., McCrickard, D. S., Stelter, T. L., Dix, A., & Taylor, G. D. (2019). Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 3(4), 66.
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