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ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives
Abram Handler, Narges Mahyar, Brendan O'Connor
Historians and archivists often find and analyze the occurrences of query words in newspaper archives, to help answer fundamental questions about society. But much work in text ana…
Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
News archives are an invaluable primary source for placing current events in historical context. But current search engine tools do a poor job at uncovering broad themes and narrat…
An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran +4
We have created a platform for online deliberation called Deme (which rhymes with 'team'). Deme is designed to allow groups of people to engage in collaborative drafting, focused d…
Displaying Asynchronous Reactions to a Document: Two Goals and a Design
Todd Davies, Benjamin Newman, Brendan O'Connor +2
We describe and motivate three goals for the screen display of asynchronous text deliberation pertaining to a document: (1) visibility of relationships between comments and the tex…
"Groupware for Groups": Problem-Driven Design in Deme
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran +1
Design choices can be clarified when group interaction software is directed at solving the interaction needs of particular groups that pre-date the groupware. We describe an exampl…