Publications

2012

N. Diakopoulos, M. De Choudhury, M. Naaman. Finding and Assessing Social Media Information Sources in the Context of Journalism. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). May, 2012. [PDF]

M. De Choudhury, N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman. Unfolding the Event Landscape on Twitter: Classification and Exploration of User Categories. Proc. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). February, 2012. [PDF]

2011

J. Hullman and N. Diakopoulos. Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects in Narrative Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. October 2011. [PDF]

S. Brody and N. Diakopoulos. Cooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using Word Lengthening to Detect Sentiment in MicroblogsProceedings Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). July, 2011. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, F. Kivran-Swaine, M. Naaman. Playable Data: Characterizing the Design Space of Game-y InfographicsConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). May, 2011. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos and M. Naaman. Topicality, Time, and Sentiment in Online News CommentsConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Works in Progress. May, 2011. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos. Design Challenges in Playable Data. CHI Workshop on Gamification. May, 2011. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman, T. Yazdani, F. Kivran-Swaine. Social Media Visual Analytics for Events. In Social Media Modeling and Computing. Eds. Steven Hoi, Jiebo Luo, Susanne Boll, Dong Xu, Rong Jin, Irwin King. Springer Verlag. 2011. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman. Towards Quality Discourse in Online News Comments. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). March, 2011. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos. A Functional Roadmap for Innovation in Computational Journalism. 2010-2011 (working paper) [PDF]

2010

N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman, F. Kivran-Swaine. Diamonds in the Rough: Social Media Visual Analytics for Journalistic InquiryConference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). October, 2010. [PDF][Video][Vox Civitas Prototype]

Z. Yu, N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman. The Multiplayer: Multi-perspective Social Video NavigationIn Proc. addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). October, 2010. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, D. A. Shamma. Characterizing Debate Performance via Aggregated Twitter Sentiment. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2010. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Modulating Video Credibility via Visualization of Quality Evaluations. WWW Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW). April, 2010.

N. Diakopoulos. Game-y Information Graphics. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Works in Progress. April, 2010. [PDF]

K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos, A. Bruckman. Edits & Credits: Exploring Integration and Attribution in Online Creative CollaborationConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) alt.chi. April, 2010. [PDF]

Nicholas Diakopoulos and Patrick Chiu. Photoplay: A Video Game for Tagging Photos on a Tabletop Display. United States Patent #7,686,682. Granted March 30, 2010. 

2009

N. Diakopoulos, S. Goldenberg, I. Essa. Videolyzer: Quality Analysis of Online Informational Video for Bloggers and JournalistsConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2009. [PDF] [Video]

2008

S. Yardi, K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos, A. Bruckman. Opening The Black Box: Four Views of Transparency in Remix Culture. CSCW Workshop on Tinkering, Tailoring, & Mashing: The Social and Collaborative Practices of the Read-Write Web. San Diego, November, 2008.

N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, I. Essa. Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game. ACM Multimedia. October, 2008. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. An Annotation Model for Making Sense of Information Quality in Online Video. International Conference on the Pragmatic Web (ICPW). September, 2008. [PDF]

P. Chiu, J. Huang, M. Back, N. Diakopoulos, J. Doherty, W. Polak, X. Sun. mTable: Browsing Photos and Videos on a Tabletop SystemACM Multimedia Video Program. 2008. [YouTube Link]

2007

N. Diakopoulos, P. Chiu. PhotoPlay: A Collocated Collaborative Photo Tagging Game on a Horizontal DisplayIn Proceedings addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). Newport, Rhode Island, October 2007. [Abstract] [Poster]

A. St. Clair, M. Fong, N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. NARC: The News Article Revision ComparatorIn Proceedings addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). Newport, Rhode Island, October 2007 [Abstract] [Poster]

N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y. Medynskiy, I. Essa. The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix SocietyIn Proceedings of Hypertext and Hypermedia. Manchester, UK, September 2007[PDF]

K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos. Distributed Creativity. Creativity and Cognition Workshop on Supporting Creative Acts Beyond Dissemination. Washington, DC. June 2007. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y. Medynskiy, I. Essa. Remixing Authorship: Reconfiguring the Author in Online Video Remix Culture. Georgia Tech, Technical Report. GIT-IC-07-05. 2007. [PDF]

2006

N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Videotater: An Approach for Pen-Based Digital Video Segmentation and TaggingIn Proceedings of User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). Montreux, Switzerland, October 2006. [PDF]

2005

N. Diakopoulos. Remix Culture: Mixing Up Authorship. December 2005. [WORD]

N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Supporting Personal Media Authoring. ACM Multimedia workshop on Multimedia for Human Communication (MHC). Singapore, November 2005. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Mediating Photo Collage Authoring. In Proceedings of User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). Seattle, USA, October 2005. [PDF] [Webpage]

N. Diakopoulos, P. Stephenson. Anti-Aliased Lines Using Run-MasksComputer Graphics Forum, vol. 24, no. 2, 2005, pp 165-172.

2004 and before

H. Rehatschek, N. Diakopoulos, G. Kienast, V. Hahn, T. Declerck. DIRECT-INFO: A Distributed Multimodal Analysis System for Media Monitoring ApplicationsEuropean Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology (EWIMT 2004), London, UK, November 2004. [PDF]

U. Bischoff, N. Diakopoulos, F. L??sch, Y. Zhou. ThemeExplorer: A Tool for Understanding the History of the Field of Information VisualizationInfoVisFun 2004, Austin, USA, October, 2004. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa, and R. Jain. Content Based Image SynthesisConference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2004, Dublin, Ireland, July 2004. pp 299-307. [PDF] [Webpage]

S. Volmer and N. Diakopoulos. Contextually Meaningful Representation of Color for the Description of Visual Content6th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Miami, USA, September 2003. [PDF]

N. Diakopoulos and S. Volmer. Temporally Tolerant Video MatchingSIG IR Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop 2003, Toronto, Canada, August 2003. [PDF]

Peter Stephenson, Bruce Litow, and Nicholas Diakopoulos. Using Line Structure Information to Enhance Line Drawing in Digital Systems. US Patent #: WO03052733. July 26, 2003.