Visual interfaces to the social and semantic web (VISSW 2010)

Recent innovations in the Social and Semantic Web fields have resulted in large amounts of data created, published and consumed by users of the Web. This vast amount of data exists in a variety of formats, from the traditional ones such as text, image, video to the more recent additions such as streams of status information from Twitter and Facebook. The ability to easily integrate such vast amounts of data raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across heterogeneous data sources on different platforms (e.g. computers, mobile devices, set-top boxes). Building on the success of the VISSW2009 workshop, the IUI2010 workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields to discuss the latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web. This paper outlines the context of the workshop and provides an overview of the research to be presented at the event.