Extending adjacency matrices to 3D with triangles

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Main Authors: Pan, Rusheng, Purchase, Helen C., Dwyer, Tim, Chen, Wei
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Published: 2023
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author Pan, Rusheng
Purchase, Helen C.
Dwyer, Tim
Chen, Wei
author_facet Pan, Rusheng
Purchase, Helen C.
Dwyer, Tim
Chen, Wei
contents Social networks are the fabric of society and the subject of frequent visual analysis. Closed triads represent triangular relationships between three people in a social network and are significant for understanding inherent interconnections and influence within the network. The most common methods for representing social networks (node-link diagrams and adjacency matrices) are not optimal for understanding triangles. We propose extending the adjacency matrix form to 3D for better visualization of network triads. We design a 3D matrix reordering technique and implement an immersive interactive system to assist in visualizing and analyzing closed triads in social networks. A user study and usage scenarios demonstrate that our method provides substantial added value over node-link diagrams in improving the efficiency and accuracy of manipulating and understanding the social network triads.
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spellingShingle Extending adjacency matrices to 3D with triangles
Pan, Rusheng
Purchase, Helen C.
Dwyer, Tim
Chen, Wei
Social and Information Networks
Human-Computer Interaction
Social networks are the fabric of society and the subject of frequent visual analysis. Closed triads represent triangular relationships between three people in a social network and are significant for understanding inherent interconnections and influence within the network. The most common methods for representing social networks (node-link diagrams and adjacency matrices) are not optimal for understanding triangles. We propose extending the adjacency matrix form to 3D for better visualization of network triads. We design a 3D matrix reordering technique and implement an immersive interactive system to assist in visualizing and analyzing closed triads in social networks. A user study and usage scenarios demonstrate that our method provides substantial added value over node-link diagrams in improving the efficiency and accuracy of manipulating and understanding the social network triads.
title Extending adjacency matrices to 3D with triangles
topic Social and Information Networks
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07588