TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding the utility of geospatial information in social media
AU - Robinson, Anthony C.
AU - Savelyev, Alexander
AU - Pezanowski, Scott
AU - MacEachren, Alan M.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Crisis situations generate tens of millions of social media reports, many of which contain references to geographic features and locations. Contemporary systems are now capable of mining and visualizing these location references in social media reports, but we have yet to develop a deep understanding of what end-users will expect to do with this information when attempting to achieve situational awareness. To explore this problem, we have conducted a utility and usability analysis of SensePlace2, a geovisual analytics tool designed to explore geospatial information found in Tweets. Eight users completed a task analysis and survey study using SensePlace2. Our findings reveal user expectations and key paths for solving usability and utility issues to inform the design of future visual analytics systems that incorporate geographic information from social media.
AB - Crisis situations generate tens of millions of social media reports, many of which contain references to geographic features and locations. Contemporary systems are now capable of mining and visualizing these location references in social media reports, but we have yet to develop a deep understanding of what end-users will expect to do with this information when attempting to achieve situational awareness. To explore this problem, we have conducted a utility and usability analysis of SensePlace2, a geovisual analytics tool designed to explore geospatial information found in Tweets. Eight users completed a task analysis and survey study using SensePlace2. Our findings reveal user expectations and key paths for solving usability and utility issues to inform the design of future visual analytics systems that incorporate geographic information from social media.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905656005
SN - 9783923704804
T3 - ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
SP - 918
EP - 922
BT - ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie (KIT)
T2 - 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2013
Y2 - 12 May 2013 through 15 May 2013
ER -