Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization
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 a...
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| author | Shuo Niu D. Scott McCrickard Timothy L. Stelter Alan Dix G. Don Taylor |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a988f027501491e882aedfb19db004c2022-12-21T23:20:38ZengMDPI AGMultimodal Technologies and Interaction2414-40882019-10-01346610.3390/mti3040066mti3040066Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and VisualizationShuo Niu0D. Scott McCrickard1Timothy L. Stelter2Alan Dix3G. Don Taylor4Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USADepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USADepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USAComputational Foundry, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8EN, UKGrado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USATemporally-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.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/3/4/66blognatural language processingvisualizationre-visitation |
| spellingShingle | Shuo Niu D. Scott McCrickard Timothy L. Stelter Alan Dix G. Don Taylor Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization Multimodal Technologies and Interaction blog natural language processing visualization re-visitation |
| title | Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization |
| title_full | Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization |
| title_fullStr | Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization |
| title_short | Reorganize Your Blogs: Supporting Blog Re-visitation with Natural Language Processing and Visualization |
| title_sort | reorganize your blogs supporting blog re visitation with natural language processing and visualization |
| topic | blog natural language processing visualization re-visitation |
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