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01-09-2020 | Regular Paper

Bubble storytelling with automated animation: a Brexit hashtag activism case study

Authors: Noptanit Chotisarn, Junhua Lu, Libinzi Ma, Jingli Xu, Linhao Meng, Bingru Lin, Ying Xu, Xiaonan Luo, Wei Chen

Published in: Journal of Visualization | Issue 1/2021

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Hashtag data are common and easy to acquire. Thus, they are widely used in studies and visual data storytelling. For example, a recent story by China Central Television Europe depicts Brexit as a hashtag movement displayed on an animated bubble chart. However, creating such a story is usually laborious and tedious, because narrators have to switch between different tools and discuss with different collaborators. To reduce the burden, we develop a prototype system to help explore the bubbles’ movement by automatically inserting animations connected to the storytelling of the video creators and the interaction of viewers to those videos. We demonstrate the usability of our method through both use cases and a semi-structured user study.

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Title: Bubble storytelling with automated animation: a Brexit hashtag activism case study
Authors: Noptanit Chotisarn
Junhua Lu
Libinzi Ma
Jingli Xu
Linhao Meng
Bingru Lin
Ying Xu
Xiaonan Luo
Wei Chen
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Journal of Visualization / Issue 1/2021
Print ISSN: 1343-8875
Electronic ISSN: 1875-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-020-00690-7

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