SPALENDAR: Visualizing a Group's Calendar Events over a Geographic Space on a Public Display

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SPALENDAR: Visualizing a Group's Calendar Events over a Geographic Space on a Public Display. / Chen, Xiang 'Anthony'; Boring, Sebastian; Carpendale, Sheelagh; Tang, Anthony; Greenberg, Saul.

2012.

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Chen, XA, Boring, S, Carpendale, S, Tang, A & Greenberg, S 2012, 'SPALENDAR: Visualizing a Group's Calendar Events over a Geographic Space on a Public Display'.

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Chen, X. A., Boring, S., Carpendale, S., Tang, A., & Greenberg, S. (2012). SPALENDAR: Visualizing a Group's Calendar Events over a Geographic Space on a Public Display.

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Chen XA, Boring S, Carpendale S, Tang A, Greenberg S. SPALENDAR: Visualizing a Group's Calendar Events over a Geographic Space on a Public Display. 2012.

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Chen, Xiang 'Anthony' ; Boring, Sebastian ; Carpendale, Sheelagh ; Tang, Anthony ; Greenberg, Saul. / SPALENDAR: Visualizing a Group's Calendar Events over a Geographic Space on a Public Display. 8 p.

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title = "SPALENDAR: Visualizing a Group's Calendar Events over a Geographic Space on a Public Display",
abstract = "Portable paper calendars (i.e., day planners and organizers) have greatly influenced the design of group electronic calendars. Both use time units (hours/days/weeks/etc.) to organize visuals, with useful information (e.g., event types, locations, attendees) usually presented as - perhaps abbreviated or even hidden - text fields within those time units. The problem is that, for a group, this visual sorting of individual events into time buckets conveys only limited information about the social network of people. For example, people{\textquoteright}s whereabouts cannot be read {\textquoteleft}at a glance{\textquoteright} but require examining the text. Our goal is to explore an alternate visualization that can reflect and illustrate group members{\textquoteright} calendar events. Our main idea is to display the group{\textquoteright}s calendar events as spatiotemporal activities occurring over a geographic space animated over time, all presented on a highly interactive public display. In particular, our SPALENDAR (SPAtial CALENDAR) design animates people{\textquoteright}s past, present and forthcoming movements between event locations as well as their static locations. Detail of people{\textquoteright}s events, their movements and their locations is progressively revealed and controlled by the viewer{\textquoteright}s proximity to the display, their identity, and their gestural interactions with it, all of which are tracked by the public display.",
author = "Chen, {Xiang 'Anthony'} and Sebastian Boring and Sheelagh Carpendale and Anthony Tang and Saul Greenberg",
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AU - Boring, Sebastian

AU - Carpendale, Sheelagh

AU - Tang, Anthony

AU - Greenberg, Saul

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