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My work emphasizes online communication with visualization
techniques, social network
analysis, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. I then use
these forms of analysis to design systems that improve users' experience
with computer systems. I have active
projects looking at Usenet Newsgroups, redesigning email, and examining the usage
of mapping systems. You can find me at CHI, CSCW, and InfoViz conferences.
I'm a member of VIBE, Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment,, a group interested in building new interfaces for computer systems and new ways of visualizing data. I have also been affiliated with the Community Technologies Group, which studies how groups of people do work
together online.
I blog occasionally at "Made Out Of People".
Projects and Releases
Hotmap: the Use of Virtual Earth
[Technorati]
Hotmap visualizes where in the world people look at
when they use Windows Live Maps [Blogged].
MSR
MapCruncher [Technorati]
MapCruncher places your
maps on a Virtual Earth background, and lets you serve them up to the
world. [Blogged].
Treemapper for Excel
[Technorati]
MSR has released a number of public visualization components;
we've now got a convenient tool for creating
treemaps based on
Excel data.[Blogged]
SNARF,
the Social Network and Relationship Finder [Technorati]
SNARF is a new way of handling email, and is now available as a
public prototype. Check out the
SNARF page to play with the public release.
The Roles Project
Did you just get an online reply from a flamer, or from a helpful
answer person? Are you in a supportive discussion, or are you
surrounded by flamers? The Roles project tries to figure out how
different online groups differ from each other.
("You Are Who You Talk To")
Presentations and Invited Talks
Social Network Analysis: A Research
Perspective (ppt).
Invited panel presentation
at the Politics Online 2007 Conference. Presents an
overview of social network analysis, and contrasts the explicit relationships in social
network systems like MySpace. Discusses "You Are Who You Talk To", "Picturing Usenet",
and "Opinion Diversity" papers.
Selected Publications
Social Media (Blogs, Newsgroups, etc)
Gamon, M., Basu, S., Belenko, D., Fisher, D., Hurst, M., Konig,
A.C. (2008) BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social
Media (AAAI ICWSM 2008), Seattle, WA Fisher, D., Turner, T.C., and
Smith, M. (2008)
Space Planning for Online Community.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM
2008), Seattle, WA
Geographic Visualization (Including
Hotmap)
Elias, M., Elson, J., Fisher, D., Howell, J. (2008). "Do I Live
in a Flood Basin?": Synthesizing Ten Thousand Maps. CHI 2008.
Florence, Italy. (MapSynthesizer)
Fisher, D. (2007)
How We Watch the City: Popularity and Online Maps
.
Workshop paper, presented at the
Imaging the City Workshop, CHI 2007.
Fisher, D. (2007)
Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention
.
Proceedings of Information Visualization (IEEE InfoVis) 2007, Sacramento, CA
Visualization and Sociability
Fisher, D. (2006) Ask
Not for Whom the Visualization is Rendered; It is Rendered for Thee.
Workshop paper, presented at the
Social Visualization Workshop, CHI 2006.
The Roles Project
Turner, T. C., Smith, M. A., Fisher, D., and Welser, H. T.
(2005).
Picturing Usenet: Mapping computer-mediated collective action.
Journal of Computer Mediated
Communication, 10(4), article 7.
Fisher, D.
Understanding Communication Using Social Networks.
IEEE
Internet Computing. September/October, 2005. [Local
copy]
Fisher, D., Smith, M., and Welser, H.
You Are Who You Talk To,
Proceedings of HICSS, January 2006. (Best
Paper, Digital Media and Communication Program) [Local
copy]
Howard T. Welser, Eric Gleave, Danyel Fisher,and Marc Smith. 2007. Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups. In Journal of Social Structure. (Vol. 8, No. 2)
Politics and Roles
Kelly, J., Smith, M., and Fisher, D.
Opinion Diversity in Online Political Discussion Networks. Proceedings of
Online
Deliberation 2005 (DIAC-2005.) [Non-refereed.
Local copy]
Kelly, J., Fisher, D., and Smith, M.
Friends, Foes, and Fringe: Norms and Structure in Political Discussion Networks.
Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Digital Government Research.
[Poster.
Local copy]
SNARF Research
Fisher, D., Brush, AJ., Gleave, E., Smith. M.
Revisiting Whittaker & Sidner's "Email Overload" Ten Years Later.
CSCW 2006. [Local
copy]
Fisher, D., Hogan, B., Brush, AJ., Smith, M., and Jacobs, A. Using Social Sorting to
Enhance Email Management. HCIC, the
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium. 2006. [Local
copy] [Slides]
Neustaedter, C., Brush, AJ., Smith, M., and Fisher, D..
The Social Network
and Relationship Finder: Social Sorting for Email Triage.
CEAS 2005. [Local
copy]
Other Work
Fisher, D. (2007) On the "Diffusion of Innovations" in HCI. Thomas Erickson and David McDonald, eds.
HCI Remixed. MIT Press.
Graduate Research: Soylent
Fisher, D. and Nardi, B. (2007) Soylent and ContactMap: Tools for
Constructing the Social Workscape. Victor
Kaptalenin and Mary Czerwinski, eds. Integrated Digital Work
Environments. MIT Press.
Fisher, D. and Dourish, P. (2004).
Social and
Temporal Structures in Everyday Collaboration.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems CHI 2004 (Vienna, Austria), 551-558. [Local
copy] [Copy
at UCI]. [The
dissertation from which it was extracted].
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