Contextual pivoting - an example

May 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Content management, Technology

Several months ago I wrote about the power of association (knowledge) that can be derived by users of systems that allow them to change perspective (e.g. view from one relational vantage point to another). I’ve been calling this feature a context pivot and the action around the feature contextual pivoting. (Sometimes I also refer to this as content pivoting.) Today, I see that Simon Guest & Co. have added something akin to this feature on Skyscrapr: a content map (for (software) architecture). Good stuff.

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1 jeffspitulnik // May 3, 2007 at 10:07 pm

This is still my all-time favorite example of contextual pivoting: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=108883

The application was absolutely stunning for the time.

Here is a nice modern, more generalized implementation: http://www.liveplasma.com/. (This is what news.com uses for their visual concept map news browsing experience.)
2 Craig Randall // May 4, 2007 at 10:07 am

Thanks for the pointers, Jeff. I recently bought a new groove jazz album, En Route by Four80East, and am familiar with its influences and similarly sounding groups. So I thought I’d try “four80east” in liveplasma:

…a reasonable result–one that could be enhanced further using an approach like Pandora (and others) use to refine recommendations based on further input from the user (i.e. learning system). I’ll have to give the ACM content (regarding cone trees) a thorough read before I can reasonably comment on that. Appreciate the collaboration as always!
3 Craig Randall // May 5, 2007 at 7:56 am

Cone tree is listed within “A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods,” too.
4 About core beliefs at EMC // May 5, 2007 at 9:13 pm

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