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Rebecca Mackenzie
dblp:281/5260
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 87% Information retrieval · 13% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visualization and visual analytics · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data mining › clustering › interpretable clustering
cluster labeling |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | TrafficVis: Visualizing Organized Activity and Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Detecting and Labeling Human Trafficking · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2023 |
Data mining › clustering
document clustering |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | TrafficVis: Visualizing Organized Activity and Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Detecting and Labeling Human Trafficking · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2023 |
Information retrieval
search engines |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | TrafficVis: Visualizing Organized Activity and Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Detecting and Labeling Human Trafficking · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
text clustering · 1.3participatory design · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | TrafficVis: Visualizing Organized Activity and Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Detecting and Labeling Human TraffickingabstractLaw enforcement and domain experts can detect human trafficking (HT) in online escort websites by analyzing suspicious clusters of connected ads. How can we explain clustering results intuitively and interactively, visualizing potential evidence for experts to analyze? We present TRAFFICVIS, the first interface for cluster-level HT detection and labeling. Developed through months of participatory design with domain experts, TRAFFICVIS provides coordinated views in conjunction with carefully chosen backend algorithms to effectively show spatio-temporal and text patterns to a wide variety of anti-HT stakeholders. We build upon state-of-the-art text clustering algorithms by incorporating shared metadata as a signal of connected and possibly suspicious activity, then visualize the results. Domain experts can use TRAFFICVIS to label clusters as HT, or other, suspicious, but non-HT activity such as spam and scam, quickly creating labeled datasets to enable further HT research. Through domain expert feedback and a usage scenario, we demonstrate TRAFFICVIS's efficacy. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with repeated high praises for the usability and explainability of our tool, the latter being vital for indicting possible criminals. Catalina Vajiac, Polo Chau, Andreas M. Olligschlaeger, Rebecca Mackenzie, Pratheeksha Nair, Meng-Chieh Lee, Yifei Li 0008, Namyong Park 0001, Reihaneh Rabbany, Christos Faloutsos |
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. | 4 |