Abstract
In this research, we aim to improve Bridging Social Capital through visualization based on the needs and cultural features of Korean SNS users. According to previous researches, functions such as Expert Search, Connection, and Communication influence on forming Korean SNS users’ Bridging Social Capital. Thus, in this research, by conducting the FGI (Focus Group Interview), users’ needs and opinions were collected. Then, we developed visualization system through FGI results and observed usage in laboratory setting. The usage observation revealed that our visualization system contributes in the improvement of Bridging Social Capital. These results show that Bridging Social Capital could be improved through visualization based on user needs and reveal that features have to be considered in Korean SNS. Thus we expect that this study has academic and practical significance.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Ellison, N.B., Steinfield, C., Lampe, C.: The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12, 1143–1168 (2007)
Subrahmanyam, K., Reich, S.M., Waechter, N., Espinoza, G.: Online and offline social networks: Use of social networking sites by emerging adults. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 29, 420–433 (2008)
Joinson, A.N.: Looking at’, ‘Looking up’ or ‘Keeping up with’ People?. Motives and Uses of Facebook. In: CHI 2008 Proceedings (2008)
Mislove, A., Marcon, M., Krishna, P., Druschel, G.P., Bhattacharjee, B.: Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks. In: IMC 2007 Proceedings (2007)
Henry, N., Fekete, J.D., McGuffin, M.J.: NodeTrix: a Hybrid Visualization of Social Networks. Visualization and Computer Graphics 13, 1302–1309 (2007)
Henry, N., Fekete, J.D.: MatLink: Enhanced Matrix Visualization for Analyzing Social Networks. In: Baranauskas, C., Abascal, J., Barbosa, S.D.J., et al. (eds.) INTERACT 2007. LNCS, vol. 4663, part II, pp. 288–302. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Heer, J., Boyd, D.: Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks. In: Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, InfoVis 2005 (2005)
Rodrigues, D., Oakley, I.: Social Circles: A 3D User Interface for Facebook. In: Gross, T., Gulliksen, J., Kotzé, P., Oestreicher, L., Palanque, P., Prates, R.O., Winckler, M. (eds.) INTERACT 2009. LNCS, vol. 5727, pp. 838–839. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)
Okamoto, T., Buza, K.: Visualization of Social Interactions in Facebook. In: Demonstration, AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Chicago (2008)
Ji, Y.G., Hwangbo, H.: The Influence of Cultural Differences on the Use of Social Network Services and the Formation of Social Capital. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 26, 1100–1121 (2010)
Lin, N.: Social capital: a theory of social structure and action. Cambridge University Press, New York (2001)
Putnam, R.D.: Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community. Simon and Schuster, New York (2000)
Szreter, S., Woolcock, M.: Health by association? Social capital, social theory and the political economy of public health. Int J. Epidemiol. 33, 650–667 (2004)
Donath, J., Boyd, D.: Public Displays of Connection. BT Technology Journal 22, 7–82 (2004)
Chen, C.: Information Visualization. Springer, London (2006)
Visualization techniques, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visualization_computer_graphics
Mazza, R.: Introduction to Information Visualization. Springer, London (2009)
Jarke, J., Wijk, V., Wetering, H.: Cushion Treemaps: Visualization of Hierarchical Information. In: Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, San Francisco (1999)
Johnson, B., Shneiderman, B.: Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Visualization 1991, San Diego (1991)
Turo, D., Johnson, B.: Improving the visualization of hierarchies with treemaps: design issues and experimentation. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Visualization, Boston (1992)
Rodrigues, J., Ferreira, V., Ferreira, D., Freitas, M.: Twitviz- Exploring Twitter network for your interests (2009)
Lee, B., Plaisant, C., Parr, C.S., Fekete, J.D., Henry, N.: Task taxonomy for graph visualization. In: Proceedings of the 2006 AVI Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Information Visualization, Venice (2006)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Han, Y.S., Choi, J.K., Ji, Y.G. (2011). A Study on Social Network Services Visualization Based on User Needs. In: Ozok, A.A., Zaphiris, P. (eds) Online Communities and Social Computing. OCSC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6778. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21796-8_34
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21796-8_34
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-21795-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-21796-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)