Proposal of a visualization method to support informal communication using twitter attributes

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to visualize information regarding hobbies and interests of a person inferred from tweets on Twitter to support informal communication in the real world. Analysis of the current states and experiments on informal communication clarified that it is important and useful for a person to know information such as hobbies, interests and other attributes which indicate background of his/her partner to start and maintain a first and good meeting. Through experimental results, we demonstrated that our proposed social profile diagram was effective for informal communication.