Skimmer: Monitoring the Gist of Streaming Text

As information gains in both volume and pace, understanding and monitoring it becomes even more challenging. The Skimmer project addresses these problems with the creation of information summarization and awareness tools, and experimental evaluation of these tools.

Principal Investigators: Ben Watson (NCSU CSC) & Chris Healey (NCSU CSC).

Other project members: Riley Benson (NCSU CSC), David Crist (NCSC CSC), Phil Lafleur (NCSU CSC)

Sponsors: NSF REU Site award to DesignTech

Publications

J.R. Benson, D. Crist, P. Lafleur & B.A. Watson. (2008). Agent-based visualization of streaming text. IEEE Information Visualization Conference Demo. (pdf)

J.R. Benson, D. Crist, P. Lafleur & B.A. Watson. (2008). Agent-based visualization of streaming text. IEEE Information Visualization Conference Poster. (pdf)

Videos & Imagery

	Demo Video 01 Simple demo of an early version of our current software. Divx codec.
	Demo Video 02 Demo of later version. Divx codec.