Social-Circles Exploration through Interactive Multi-Layered Chord Layout

Abstract

Due to the usage of social media platforms for different purposes in our current digital social life, people are interested to explore and understand their personal networks (called the ego networks) and how their contacts are associated with different social circles on these social media platforms. In this work, we propose an enhanced multi-layered Chord layout to show people' ego networks and the associated social circles in interactive visual forms. This proposed solution enables the users to explore intuitively how their contacts are associated to different social circles through a set of provided interaction and filtering options.