Visualizing the evolution of HCI

Abstract

A study of the evolution of the HCI community is described based on information extracted from leading HCI journals. The study includes a traditional author co-citation analysis and a progressive domain visualization of a co-authorship network of 3,620 authors and a 1,038-node hybrid network of topical terms and cited articles. Emerging trends and prominent patterns of these networks are identified and compared with an existing survey of the field. The study contributes to the understanding of HCI at a macroscopic level as well as to the improvement of methodological implications.