Community Analysis and Visualization
Participants
- Ben Shneiderman, (Co-PI) - Professor, Computer Science, Researcher (and Founding Director) at HCIL
- Alan Neustadtl, (Co-PI) - Associate Professor at the Sociology Department, University of Maryland
- Catherine Plaisant, (Co-PI) - Research Scientist, UMIACS, Associate Director of Research at HCIL
- Art Hanson, Executive Director of Nation of Neighbors
- Jae-wook Ahn, NSF CRA Fellow, HCIL
- Jeehye (Jessie) Kang, Graduate Student at the Sociology Department, University of Maryland
- PJ Rey, Graduate Student at the Sociology Department, University of Maryland
- Awalin Sopan, Graduate Student at the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
- Meirav Taieb-Maimon, Visiting Professor from the Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Nick Violi, Graduate Student at the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
Project Description
Nation of Neighbors is Neighborhood Watch for the 21st century. It facilitates real-time collaboration within communities and between community members and Law Enforcement. Their mission is to enable Citizens and Law Enforcement to work together to fight and deter crime and improve our communities.
This project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Computer Science, HCIL, and Sociology at the University of Maryland. The goal is to design and develop visualization and analytic tools to facilitate the study of social networks. We also hope to increase Nation of Neighbors' effectiveness in facilitating community engagement and reducing crime.
Publications
- Ahn, J., Taieb-Maimon, M., Sopan, A., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B. Temporal Visualization of Social Network Dynamics: Prototypes for Nation of Neighbors. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP11).
- Rey, P. "Defining and Measuring Success for Online Crime Prevention Communities." AMCIS 2011 Proceedings.
Under Review
- Awalin Sopan, PJ Rey, Jae-wook Ahn Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman. "The Dynamics of Web-Based Community Safety Groups: Lessons Learned from the Nation of Neighbors." WebScience. Evanston, IL. June 2012.
- Ahn, J., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B. "A Task Taxonomy of Network Evolution Analysis." IEEE VGTC.
- Violi, N., Shneiderman, B., Hansen, A., Rey, P. Motivation for Participation in Online Neighborhood Watch Communities: An Empirical Study Involving Invitation Letters. Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing.
Presentations
- "Social Life in Online Neighborhood: Conversational Network Analysis in Nation of Neighbors." Jeehye Kang and Alan Neustadtl. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New York, New York. February 2012.
- "The Influence of Leadership on Activity Levels in an Online Crime Watch Community," presented by By PJ Rey. Co-authored by Awalin Sopan, Jae-wook Ahn, Jeehye Kang, Catherine Plaisant, and Ben Shneiderman. American Sociology Association Annual Meeting. Denver, GA. August 2012.
- "Nation of Neighbors: Design and Network Evolution for Internet Community Safety Systems," presented by Ben Shneiderman, PJ Rey, and Jae-wook Ahn. UMD Interdisciplinary Lecture Series on TMSP (Feb-March 2011).
- Lecture Slides
- “Motivation for Participation in Online Neighborhood Watch Communities,” presented by Nick Violi. Theorizing the Web 2011.
- Lecture Slides
- "Nation of Neighbors: Understanding Users and their Motivations," presented by PJ Rey. 28th Annual HCIL Symposium.
- Lecture Slides: Short Version | Long Versions
- "Visualizing the Temporal Evolution of Networks," presented by Awalin Sopan and Jae-wook Ahn. 28th Annual HCIL Symposium.
- "Design and Network Evolution for Internet Community Safety Systems," presented by Ben Shneiderman. NSF Principal Investigators: Social Computational Systems Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, June 9-11, 2011.
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Sponsorship
This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation, grant # IIS - 0968521 "Supporting A Nation of Neighbors with Community Analysis Visualization Environment". Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
