Chaomei Chen

Publication List Details

Period

1995 - 2010

Number

133

Co-Authors

Collaboration in an Open Data eScience: A Case Study of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2010)

Zhang, Jian, Chen, Chaomei

Current science and technology has produced more and more publically accessible scientific data. However, little is known about how the open data trend impacts a scientific community, specifically in...

Towards an explanatory and computational theory of scientific discovery (2009)

Chen, Chaomei, Chen, Yue, Horowitz, Mark, Hou, Haiyan, Liu, Zeyuan, Pellegrino, Don

We propose an explanatory and computational theory of transformative discoveries in science. The theory is derived from a recurring theme found in a diverse range of scientific change, scientific...

Delineating the Citation Impact of Scientific Discoveries (2009)

Chaomei Chen, Jian Zhang

Identifying the significance of specific concepts in the diffusion of scientific knowledge is a challenging issue concerning many theoretical and practical areas. We introduce an innovative visual...

Semantically Modified Diffusion Limited Aggregation for Visualizing Large-Scale Networks (2009)

Chaomei Chen, Natasha Lobo

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (DLA) is a model of fractal growth. Computer models can simulate the fast aggregation of millions of particles. In this paper, we propose a modified version of DLA,...

ABSTRACT Adapting the Cognitive Walkthrough Method to Assess the Usability of a Knowledge Domain Visualization (2008)

Kenneth Allendoerfer, Serge Aluker, Gulshan Panjwani, Jason Proctor, David Sturtz, Mirjana Vukovic, ...

The usability of knowledge domain visualization (KDViz) tools can be assessed at several levels. Cognitive Walkthrough (CW) is a well-known usability inspection method that focuses on how easily...

General Terms (2008)

Chaomei Chen

A quantitative method is developed for measuring the quality of network visualizations in terms of log-likelihood metrics resulted from Expectation Maximization (EM) clustering intrinsic and...

Visualizing the Evolution of HCI (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Gulshan Panjwani, Jason Proctor, Kenneth Allendoerfer, Jasna Kuljis, Serge Aluker, ...

A study of the evolution of the HCI community is described based on information extracted from leading HCI journals. The study includes a traditional author co-citation analysis and a progressive...

Trends in Conceptual Modeling: Citation Analysis of the ER Conference Papers (1979-2005) (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Il-yeol Song, Weizhong Zhu

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Drexel University Libraries (2008)

Chaomei Chen

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Searching for Clinical Evidence in CiteSpace (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Yunan Chen

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Drexel University Libraries (2008)

Chaomei Chen

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ABSTRACT Adapting the Cognitive Walkthrough Method to Assess the Usability of a Knowledge Domain Visualization (2008)

Kenneth Allendoerfer, Serge Aluker, Gulshan Panjwani, Jason Proctor, David Sturtz, Mirjana Vukovic, ...

The usability of knowledge domain visualization (KDViz) tools can be assessed at several levels. Cognitive Walkthrough (CW) is a well-known usability inspection method that focuses on how easily...

Design and evaluation of the tightly coupled perceptualcognitive tasks in knowledge domain visualization (2008)

Marie B. Synnestvedt, Chaomei Chen

Knowledge Domain Visualization (KDViz) aims to reveal the dynamics of how knowledge domains evolve over time. It is the ultimate role for information visualization to facilitate a wide variety of...

Drexel University Libraries (2008)

Chaomei Chen

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Understanding conflicting opinions, creati... (2008)

Chaomei Chen

Purpose – The purpose of this work is to introduce a generic conceptual and methodological framework for the study of emergent social and intellectual patterns and trends in a diverse range of...

Drexel University (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Bill Hibbard

paths in this bibliographic network visualizationhighlight how different research topics are connected in research on terrorism.

Searching for Clinical Evidence in CiteSpace (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Yunan Chen

Abstract. A crucial step in the practice of evidencebased medicine is to locate the best available evidence regarding to clinical questions. In this article, we demonstrate that combining...

General Terms (2008)

Chaomei Chen

In this paper, we describe the development of CiteSpace as an integrated environment for identifying and tracking thematic trends in scientific literature. The goal is to simplify the process of...

Measuring the Movement of a Research Paradigm (2008)

Chaomei Chen

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Trends in Conceptual Modeling: Citation Analysis of the ER Conference Papers (1979-2005) (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Il-yeol Song, Weizhong Zhu

We analyze thematic trends and challenging issues in conceptual modeling based on the metadata of 943 research papers published in a series of conferences on conceptual modeling (known as the ER...

Mapping Scientometrics (1981-2001) (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Katherine Mccain, Howard White, Xia Lin

We investigate an integrated approach to scientometric studies with emphasis to the use of information visualization and animation techniques. This study draws upon citation and co-citation patterns...

Delineating the Citation Impact of Scientific Discoveries (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Jian Zhang

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Measuring the Quality of Network Visualization (2008)

Chaomei Chen

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Measuring the Movement of a Research Paradigm (2008)

Chaomei Chen

A research paradigm is a dynamical system of scientific works, including their perceived values by peer scientists, and governed by intrinsic intellectual values and associated citation endurance and...

Abstract (2008)

Chaomei Chen

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ABSTRACT Visual Analysis of Conflicting Opinions (2008)

Chaomei Chen, Fidelia Ibekwe-sanjuan, Eric Sanjuan, Chris Weaver

Understanding the nature and dynamics of conflicting opinions is a profound and challenging issue. In this paper we address several aspects of the issue through a study of more than 3,000 Amazon...

Interacting with Computers 10 (1998) 107–128 (2008)

Chaomei Chen

Generalised similarity analysis and pathfinder network scaling

An information-theoretic view of visual analytics (2008)

Chen, Chaomei

Prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, several foreign nationals enrolled in US civilian flying schools to learn how to fly large commercial aircraft. They wanted to learn how to navigate civilian...

Visualizing Knowledge Domains 1 (2007)

Katy Börner, Chaomei Chen, Kevin W. Boyack

"The purpose of computing is insight – not numbers." R. W. Hamming (1962) 1...

EDITORIAL Information visualization (2007)

Chaomei Chen

Welcome to Information Visualization! I am delighted to be able to introduce to you the first issue of the peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the research and practice of information...

Article No. vl980083 Bridging the Gap: The Use of Pathfinder Networks in Visual Navigation (2007)

Chaomei Chen

This paper describes a generic approach to the design of a 3D virtual environment for visual navigation. The basic design principle is that users need to understand how an environment is organised...

Abstract Visualizing the Evolution of a Subject Domain: A Case Study (2007)

Chaomei Chen

We explore the potential of information visualization techniques in enhancing existing methodologies for domain analysis and modeling. In this case study, we particularly focus on visualizing the...

Tracing conceptual and geospatial diffusion of knowledge (2007)

Chen, Chaomei, Zhu, Weizhong, Tomaszewski, Brian, MacEachren, Alan

Understanding the dynamics of knowledge diffusion has profound theoretical and practical implications across a wide variety of domains, ranging from scientific disciplines to education and...

Trends in conceptual modeling: Citation analysis of the ER conference papers (1979-2005) (2007)

Chen, Chaomei, Song, Il-Yeol, Zhu, Weizhong

We analyze thematic trends and challenging issues in conceptual modeling based on the metadata of 943 research papers published in a series of conferences on conceptual modeling (known as the ER...

Taking CiteSpace to science: new applications to visualization programming (2007)

Chen, Chaomei

We analyze thematic trends and challenging issues in conceptual modeling based on the metadata of 943 research papers published in a series of conferences on conceptual modeling (known as the ER...

Delineating the citation impact of scientific discoveries (2007)

Chen, Chaomei

Identifying the significance of specific concepts in the diffusion of scientific knowledge is a challenging issue concerning many theoretical and practical areas. We introduce an innovative visual...

Analyzing the impact of Sloan Digital Sky Survey on astronomical literature: A multiple perspective approach (2007)

Zhang, Jian, Zhu, Weizhong, Chen, Yunan, Vogeley, Michael, Chen, Chaomei

As part of an ongoing and ambitious project to support scientific discoveries in astronomy, in particular based on the use of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, this article addresses a number of...

Visual analysis of terrorism events extracted from the public knowledge bases (2007)

Zhu, Weizhong, Chen, Chaomei

Understanding the conceptual, temporal and social properties of terrorism is essential to unlock terrorists’ minds, track terrorists and make policies for emergency responses to terrorists’...

Storylines: Visual exploration and analysis in latent semantic spaces (2007)

Weizhong Zhu, Chaomei Chen

Tasks in visual analytics differ from typical information retrieval tasks in fundamental ways. A critical part of a visual analytics is to ask the right questions when dealing with a diverse...

Tracing conceptual and geospatial diffusion of knowledge (2007)

Chaomei Chen, Weizhong Zhu, Brian Tomaszewski, Alan Maceachren

Abstract. Understanding the dynamics of knowledge diffusion has profound theoretical and practical implications across a wide variety of domains, ranging from scientific disciplines to education and...

Tracing conceptual and geospatial diffusion of knowledge (2007)

Chaomei Chen, Weizhong Zhu, Brian Tomaszewski, Alan Maceachren

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Acknowledgments (2007)

Marie B. Synnestvedt, Xia Lin, Kate Mccain, Chaomei Chen, Nancy Roderer, The Johns

Completing a dissertation is like raising a child in that it takes a village to do it. This task would not have been completed without years of support from an extended village of family and friends,...

Trailblazing through a knowledge space of science: forward citation expansion in citeseer (2006)

Chen, Chaomei, Lin, Xia, Zhu, Weizhong

Understanding emerging trends and patterns in science and technology is essential not only to scientists and engineers in their own fast-advancing fields but also to a wide variety of individuals and...

Visual analysis of conflicting opinions (2006)

Chen, Chaomei, Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia, San Juan, Eric, Weaver, Chris

Understanding the nature and dynamics of conflicting opinions is a profound and challenging issue. In this paper we address several aspects of the issue through a study of more than 3,000 Amazon...

Flood scenario of the dam-break simulation (2006)

Liao, C. B., Wu, M. S., Chen, Chaomei

Paper presented at The Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE) hosted by the College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy on September 10-13, 2006 in Philadelphia,...

Visualizing the evolution of social networks (2006)

Zhu, Weizhong, Chen, Chaomei, Allen, Robert B.

We are particularly interested in how a social network evolves over time. We construct social networks as follows. Vertices in a network represent individuals. Interrelationships between these...

Trailblazing through a Knowledge Space of Science: Forward Citation Expansion in CiteSeer (2006)

Chen, Chaomei, Lin, Xia, Zhu, Weizhong

Understanding emerging trends and patterns in science and technology is essential not only to scientists and engineers in their own fast-advancing fields but also to a wide variety of individuals and...

Visualizing an enterprise social network from email (2006)

Zhu, Weizhong, Chen, Chaomei, Allen, Robert B.

Understanding the patterns of sending and receiving email within an organization may help us to understand the historical and social dimensions of that organization [1, 3]. In addition to...

Trailblazing through a Knowledge Space of Science: Forward Citation Expansion in CiteSeer (2006)

Chen, Chaomei, Lin, Xia, Zhu, Weizhong

Understanding emerging trends and patterns in science and technology is essential not only to scientists and engineers in their own fast-advancing fields but also to a wide variety of individuals and...

CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature (2006)

Chaomei Chen

This article describes the latest development of a generic approach to detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. The work makes substantial...

CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature (2006)

Chaomei Chen

This article describes the latest development of a generic approach to detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. The work makes substantial...

CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature (2006)

Chaomei Chen

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CiteSpace II: detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature (2005)

Chen, Chaomei

This article describes the latest development of a generic approach to detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. The work makes substantial...

Searching for clinical evidence in CiteSpace (2005)

Chen, Chaomei, Chen, Yunan

A crucial step in the practice of evidencebased medicine is to locate the best available evidence regarding to clinical questions. In this article, we demonstrate that combining visualization...

Adapting the cognitive walkthrough method to assess the usability of a knowledge domain visualization (2005)

Allendoerfer, Kenneth R., Aluker, Serge, Panjwani, Gulshan, Proctor, Jason M., Sturtz, David, Vukovic, Mirjana, ...

The usability of knowledge domain visualization (KDViz) tools can be assessed at several levels. Cognitive Walkthrough (CW) is a well-known usability inspection method that focuses on how easily...

CiteSpace II: visualization and knowledge discovery in bibliographic databases (2005)

Synnestvedt, Marie B., Chen, Chaomei, Holmes, John H.

This article presents a description and case study of CiteSpace II, a Java application which supports visual exploration with knowledge discovery in bibliographic databases. Highly cited and pivotal...

Visualizing the evolution of HCI (2005)

Chen, Chaomei, Panjwani, Gulshan, Proctor, Jason M., Allendoerfer, Kenneth R., Kuljis, Jasna, Aluker, Serge, ...

A study of the evolution of the HCI community is described based on information extracted from leading HCI journals. The study includes a traditional author co-citation analysis and a progressive...

Top 10 unsolved information visualization problems (2005)

Chen, Chaomei

Athought-provoking panel, organized by Theresa- Marie Rhyne, at IEEE Visualization 2004 addressed the top unsolved problems of visualization.1 Two of the invited panelists, Bill Hibbard and Chris...

Understanding the evolution of NSAID: a knowledge domain visualization approach to evidence-based medicine (2005)

Chen, Chaomei, Chen, Yunan, Maulitz, Russell

Finding the most rigorous, updated, and well received clinical evidence is a crucial and challenging task in the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). In this article, we describe a knowledge...

Measuring the quality of network visualization (2005)

Chen, Chaomei

A quantitative method is developed for measuring the quality of network visualizations in terms of log-likelihood metrics resulted from Expectation Maximization (EM) clustering intrinsic and...

Measuring the movement of a research paradigm (2005)

Chen, Chaomei

A research paradigm is a dynamical system of scientific works, including their perceived values by peer scientists, and governed by intrinsic intellectual values and associated citation endurance and...

The centrality of pivotal points in the evolution of scientific Networks (2005)

Chen, Chaomei

In this paper, we describe the development of CiteSpace as an integrated environment for identifying and tracking thematic trends in scientific literature. The goal is to simplify the process of...

Design and evaluation of the tightly coupled perceptual-cognitive tasks in knowledge domain visualization (2005)

Chen, Chaomei, Synnestvedt, Marie B.

Knowledge Domain Visualization (KDViz) aims to reveal the dynamics of how knowledge domains evolve over time. It is the ultimate role for information visualization to facilitate a wide variety of...

Understanding the evolution of NSAID: A knowledge domain visualization approach to Evidence-Based Medicine (2005)

Chaomei Chen, Yunan Chen, Russell C. Maulitz

Finding the most rigorous, updated, and well received clinical evidence is a crucial and challenging task in the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). In this article, we describe a knowledge...

The centrality of pivotal points in the evolution of scientific networks (2005)

Chaomei Chen

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Adapting the Cognitive Walkthrough Method to Assess the Usability of a Knowledge Domain Visualization (2005)

Kenneth Allendoerfer, Serge Aluker, Gulshan Panjwani, Jason Proctor, David Sturtz, Mirjana Vukovic, ...

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Tracing knowledge diffusion (2004)

Chen, Chaomei, Hicks, Diana

Knowledge diffusion is the adaptation of knowledge in a broad range of scientific and engineering research and development. Tracing knowledge diffusion between science and technology is a challenging...

Tracing knowledge diffusion (2004)

Chaomei Chen, Chaomei Chen, A Diana Hicks B

Knowledge diffusion is the adaptation of knowledge in a broad range of scientific and

Tracing knowledge diffusion (2004)

Chaomei Chen, Chaomei Chen, A Diana Hicks B

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Visualizing evolving networks: minimum spanning trees versus Pathfinder networks (2003)

Chen, Chaomei, Morris, Steven

Network evolution is a ubiquitous phenomenon in a wide variety of complex systems. There is an increasing interest in statistically modeling the evolution of complex networks such as small-world...

The rising landscape: A visual exploration of superstring revolutions in physics (2003)

Chaomei Chen, Jasna Kuljis

Knowledge domain visualization is a visual exploratory approach to the study of the development of a knowledge domain. In this study, we focus on the practical issues concerning modeling and...

Visualizing evolving networks: Minimum spanning trees versus pathfinder networks (2003)

Chaomei Chen, Steven Morris

Network evolution is a ubiquitous phenomenon in a wide variety of complex systems. There is an increasing interest in statistically modeling the evolution of complex networks such as small-world...

An extended fisheye view browser for collaborative writing (2002)

Chen, Chaomei, Rada, Richard III, Zeb, A.

This study investigated information-seeking tasks and associated cognitive issues in the context of interacting with an evolving collaborative hypertext. Fisheye view browsers were used to facilitate...

Empirical evaluation of information visualization: an introduction (2002)

Chen, Chaomei, Yu, Yue

This paper describes the development and application of visualization techniques for users to access and explore information in a digital library e ffectively and intuitively. Salient semantic...

Footprints of information foragers: behaviour semantics of visual exploration (2002)

Chen, Chaomei, Cribbin, Timothy, Kuljis, Jasna, Macredie, Robert

Social navigation exploits the knowledge and experience of peer users of information resources. A wide variety of visual–spatial approaches become increasingly popular as a means to optimize...

Footprints of information foragers: behaviour semantics of visual exploration (2002)

Chaomei Chen, Timothy Cribbin, Jasna Kuljis, Robert Macredie

Social navigation exploits the knowledge and experience of peer users of information resources. A wide variety of visual–spatial approaches become increasingly popular as a means to optimize...

Drexel University Libraries (2002)

Chaomei Chen, Timothy Cribbin, Jasna Kuljis, Robert Macredie

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Visualization of knowledge structures (2002)

Chaomei Chen

Tracking the growth of scientific knowledge has become increasingly challenging even in one’s own specialized field due to the vast amount of new scientific publications become available. As a...

Visualizing and tracking the growth of competing paradigms: Two case studies (2002)

Chaomei Chen, Timothy Cribbin, Robert Macredie, Sonali Morar

In this article we demonstrate the use of an integrative approachtovisualizingandtrackingthedevelopmentof scientific paradigms. This approach is designed to reveal the long-term process of competing...

Visualizing latent domain knowledge (2001)

Chen, Chaomei, Kuljis, Jasna, Paul, Ray J.

Knowledge discovery and data mining commonly rely on finding salient patterns of association from a vast amount of data. Traditional citation analysis of scientific literature draws insights from...

Visualizing a knowledge domain's intellectual structure (2001)

Chen, Chaomei, Paul, Ray J.

To make knowledge visualizations clear and easy to interpret, we have developed a method that extends and transforms traditional author co-citation analysis by extracting structural patterns from the...

A study of navigation strategies in spatial-semantic visualizations (2001)

Timothy Cribbin, Chaomei Chen

Visualisations of abstract data are believed to assist the searcher by providing an overview of the semantic structure of a document collection whereby semantically similar items tend to cluster in...

21-26). Visual-Spatial Exploration of Thematic Spaces: A Comparative Study of Three Visualisation Models. Paper presented at Electronic Imaging 2001: Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VIII (2001)

Timothy Cribbin, Chaomei Chen

Scatter graphs (e.g. SPIRE Galaxies, Bead, VR-VIBE) are a popular medium for visualising spatial-semantic structures derived from abstract information spaces. For small spaces (i.e. less than one...

Fitting the jigsaw of citation: Information visualization in domain analysis (2001)

Chaomei Chen, Ray J. Paul

Domain visualization is one of the new research fronts resulted from the proliferation of information visualization, aiming to reveal the essence of aknowledge domain. Information visualization plays...

Exploring cognitive issues in visual information retrieval (2001)

Timothy Cribbin, Chaomei Chen

Abstract: A study was conducted that compared user performance across a range of search tasks supported by both a textual and a visual information retrieval interface (VIRI). Test scores representing...

Fitting the jigsaw of citation: Information visualization in domain analysis (2001)

Chaomei Chen, Ray J. Paul

Domain visualization is one of the new research fronts resulted from the proliferation of information visualization, aiming to reveal the essence of aknowledge domain. Information visualization plays...

Empirical studies of information visualization: a meta-analysis (2000)

Chen, Chaomei, Yu, Yue

A meta-analysis is conducted on a set of empirical studies of information visualization. To be included in the meta-analysis, a study must meet a set of selection criteria. The meta-analysis...

Individual differences in a spatial-semantic virtual environment (2000)

Chaomei Chen

This article presents two studies concerning the role of individual differences in searching through a spatialsemantic virtual environment. In the first study, 10 subjects searched for two topics...

Similarity-Based Image Browsing (2000)

Chaomei Chen, George Gagaudakis, Paul Rosin

Digital images and videos have an increasingly important role in today's telecommunication and our everyday life in modern information society. The past few years witnessed a proliferation of...

Information Visualisation (2000)

Chaomei Chen

rk is marked by the most predominant specialties in the field. 2. [Chen et al. 2000 IEEE IV 2000] Figure 1. A sequence of animation frames reveals the high-dimensional structure of the domain....

Individual Differences in Virtual Environments: Introduction and Overview (2000)

Chaomei Chen, Mary Czerwinski, Robert Macredie

this paper, we present a brief historical overview of research in individual differences in the context of virtual environments. In particular, we highlight the notion of structure in the perception...

Individual Differences in a Spatial-Semantic Virtual Environment (2000)

Chaomei Chen

ion The categorisation and abstraction task was designed to help us understand the nature of clusters of papers as perceived by individuals through the spatial model. Some subjects wanted to check at...

Visualising scientific disciplines on the web (2000)

Chaomei Chen, Chiladda Chennawasin, Yue Yu

A novel interface design approach is presented for navigating and exploring salient intellectual structures inherited in scientific literature. We describe the development of a 3-dimensional...

Generalised similarity analysis and Pathfinder network scaling (1999)

Chen, Chaomei

This paper introduces a generic approach to the development of hypermedia information systems. This approach emphasizes the role of intrinsic inter-document relationships in structuring and...

Representing the semantics of virtual spaces (1999)

Chen, Chaomei, Thomas, Linda, Cole, Janet, Chennawasin, Chiladda

In the StarWalker virtual environment, users explore a shared semantic space and collaborate with concurrent visitors. StarWalker's design illustrates the potential of unifying spatial models,...

Visualizing the evolution of a subject domain: a case study. (1999)

Chen, Chaomei, Carr, Leslie

We explore the potential of information visualization techniques in enhancing existing methodologies for domain analysis and modeling. In this case study, we particularly focus on visualizing the...

Visualising semantic spaces and author co-citation networks in digital libraries (1999)

Chen, Chaomei

This paper describes the development and application of visualization techniques for users to access and explore information in a digital library e ffectively and intuitively. Salient semantic...

An emperical study of memory and information retrieval with a spatial user interface (1999)

Chiladda Chennawasin, Janet Cole, Chaomei Chen

The rapid advances in information retrieval, especially with visualisation-oriented user interface design, highlight the need for an understanding of the interplay between cognitive abilities of...

Trailblazing the literature of hypertext: author co-citation analysis (1999)

Chaomei Chen

This paper presents the analysis and modelling of the literature of hypertext based on the ACM Hypertext conference series. This work explores a new paradigm of organising and accessing the vast...

Visualizing the evolution of a subject domain: a case study (1999)

Chaomei Chen

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Integrating spatial, semantic, and social structures for knowledge management (1999)

Chaomei Chen

In this paper we describe a unique type of knowledge management systems ⎯ virtual reality-enabled multi-user virtual environments with spatialised semantic structures. They are designed to enable...

semantic-centric approach to information visualization.In (1999)

Chaomei Chen

A semantic-centric approach to information visualization is described in this paper. In contrast to the conventional document-centric approaches, the semantic-centric approach focuses on the...

Visualizing the Evolution of a Subject Domain: A Case Study (1999)

Chaomei Chen, Les Carr

We explore the potential of information visualization techniques in enhancing existing methodologies for domain analysis and modeling. We focus on the evolution of a subject domain. Intriguing...

Representing the Semantics of Virtual Spaces (1999)

Chaomei Chen, Linda Thomas, Janet Cole, In The Starwalker, Chiladda Chennawasin

this article, we examine semantically organized virtual spaces, focusing on how such spatial

Trailblazing the Literature of Hypertext: Author Co-Citation Analysis (1989-1998) (1999)

Chaomei Chen, Les Carr

This paper presents the analysis and modelling of two data sets associated with the literature of hypertext as represented by the ACM Hypertext conference series. This work explores new ways of...

Visualising semantic spaces and author co-citation networks in digital libraries (1999)

Chaomei Chen

Abstract ⎯ This paper describes the development and application of visualisation techniques for users to access and explore information in a digital library effectively and intuitively. Salient...

From latent semantics to spatial hypertext: an integrated approach (1998)

Chen, Chaomei, Czerwinski, Mary

In this paper, we introduce an integrated approach to the development of spatial hypertext. This approach brings together several theories and techniques concerning semantic structures, and...

Bridging the gap: The use of pathfinder networks in visual navigation (1998)

Chen, Chaomei

This paper describes a generic approach to the design of a 3D virtual environment for visual navigation. The basic design principle is that users need to understand how an environment is organized...

From latent semantics to spatial hypertext: An integrated approach (1998)

Chaomei Chen

In this paper, we introduce an integrated approach to the development of spatial hypertext. This approach brings together several theories and techniques concerning semantic structures, and...

From latent semantics to spatial hypertext: An integrated approach (1998)

Chaomei Chen

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From Latent Semantics to Spatial Hypertext: An Integrated Approach (1998)

Chaomei Chen, Mary Czerwinski

In this paper, we introduce an integrated approach to the development of spatial hypertext. This approach brings together several theories and techniques concerning semantic structures, and...

From latent semantics to spatial hypertext: An integrated approach (1998)

Chaomei Chen

In this paper, we introduce an integrated approach to the development of spatial hypertext. This approach brings together several theories and techniques concerning semantic structures, and...

How did university departments interweave the web: a study of connectivity and underlying factors. (1997)

Chen, Chaomei, Newman, Julian, Newman, Rhona, Rada, Roy

This paper presents two studies of the use of the WWW in Scottish universities and American land-grant universities. First, we investigated the relationship between the organisational profile of a...

Structuring and visualising the WWW with Generalised Similarity Analysis (1997)

Chen, Chaomei

This paper describes a generic approach to structuring and visualising a hypertext-based information space on the WWW. This approach, called Generalised Similarity Analysis (GSA), provides a unifying...

Writing with collaborative hypertext: Analysis and modelling (1997)

Chaomei Chen

This work explores a novel approach to the analysis and ported cooperative work. For instance, this challenge is modeling of computer supported collaborative writing. The aim of this dynamic modeling...

Writing with Collaborative Hypertext: Analysis and Modelling (1997)

Chaomei Chen

This paper focuses on a novel approach to the study of collaborative writing. The study concerns the dynamic nature of collaborative writing, how the nature can be effectively captured, and...

Structuring and Visualising the WWW by Generalised Similarity Analysis (1997)

Chaomei Chen

This paper describes a generic approach to structuring and visualising a hypertext-based information space on the WWW. This approach, called Generalised Similarity Analysis (GSA), provides a unifying...

User-controlled mapping of significant literatures

White, Howard D., Lin, Xia, Buzydlowski, Jan W., Chen, Chaomei

We apply a version of our web-based literature-mapping system to PNAS for 1971-2002, as indexed by the National Library of Medicine and the Institute for Scientific Information. Given a single input...

Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization

Chen, Chaomei

This article introduces a previously undescribed method progressively visualizing the evolution of a knowledge domain's cocitation network. The method first derives a sequence of cocitation networks...

Visualizing AMIA: A Medical Informatics Knowledge Domain Analysis

Synnestvedt, Marie, Chen, Chaomei

Medical Informatics has been described as having a “long and delayed adolescence” which continues to “find itself in search of self-definition”,1 and the AMIA Symposium Proceedings have been...

User-controlled mapping of significant literatures

White, Howard D., Lin, Xia, Buzydlowski, Jan W., Chen, Chaomei

We apply a version of our web-based literature-mapping system to PNAS for 1971-2002, as indexed by the National Library of Medicine and the Institute for Scientific Information. Given a single input...

Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization

Chen, Chaomei

This article introduces a previously undescribed method progressively visualizing the evolution of a knowledge domain's cocitation network. The method first derives a sequence of cocitation networks...

Visualizing AMIA: A Medical Informatics Knowledge Domain Analysis

Synnestvedt, Marie, Chen, Chaomei

Medical Informatics has been described as having a “long and delayed adolescence” which continues to “find itself in search of self-definition”,1 and the AMIA Symposium Proceedings have been...

Visual Exploration of Landmarks and Trends In the Medical Informatics Literature

Synnestvedt, Marie B., Chen, Chaomei, Holmes, John H.

This study presents preliminary results from a visual study of a new dataset of forty years of citation data from publications of twelve journals in the medical informatics field covering the time...

CiteSpace II: Visualization and Knowledge Discovery in Bibliographic Databases

Synnestvedt, Marie B., Chen, Chaomei, Holmes, John H.

This article presents a description and case study of CiteSpace II, a Java application which supports visual exploration with knowledge discovery in bibliographic databases. Highly cited and pivotal...

Searching for Clinical Evidence in CiteSpace

Chen, Chaomei, Chen, Yunan

A crucial step in the practice of evidence-based medicine is to locate the best available evidence regarding to clinical questions. In this article, we demonstrate that combining visualization...