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Computer Science > Human-Computer Interaction
Title: TimeFlows: Visualizing Process Chronologies from Vast Collections of Heterogeneous Information Objects
(Submitted on 10 Apr 2024 (v1), last revised 2 May 2024 (this version, v2))
Abstract: In many fact-finding investigations, notably parliamentary inquiries, process chronologies are created to reconstruct how a controversial policy or decision came into existence. Current approaches, like timelines, lack the expressiveness to represent the variety of relations in which historic events may link to the overall chronology. This obfuscates the nature of the interdependence among the events, and the texts from which they are distilled. Based on explorative interviews with expert analysts, we propose an extended, rich set of relationships. We describe how these can be visualized as TimeFlows. We provide an example of such a visualization by illustrating the Childcare Benefits Scandal -- an affair that deeply affected Dutch politics in recent years. This work extends the scope of existing process discovery research into the direction of unveiling non-repetitive processes from unstructured information objects.
Submission history
From: Jan Martijn van der Werf [view email][v1] Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:08:26 GMT (392kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 2 May 2024 19:11:49 GMT (392kb,D)
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