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ACTIVEMAP: A Visualization Tool for Location Awareness to Support Informal Interactions

by Joseph F. Mccarthy, Eric S. Meidel , 1999
"... . ACTIVEMAP is a visualization tool that enables users to gain greater awareness of the location of people in their workplace environment, increasing each person's ability to seek out colleagues for informal, face-to-face interactions. Our initial implementation of the tool places images of ..."
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. ACTIVEMAP is a visualization tool that enables users to gain greater awareness of the location of people in their workplace environment, increasing each person's ability to seek out colleagues for informal, face-to-face interactions. Our initial implementation of the tool places images

Activity maps for location-aware computing

by David Demirdjian, Konrad Tollmar, Kimberle Koile, Neal Checka, Trevor Darrell - In Proceedings of the IEEE WACV2002 , 2002
"... The Problem: Location-based context is important for many applications. Previous systems offered only coarse room-level features or used manually specified room regions to determine fine-scale features. We propose a location context mechanism based on activity maps, which define regions of similar c ..."
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context based on observations of 3-D patterns of location and motion in an environment. We describe an algorithm for obtaining activity maps in real time using the spatio-temporal clustering of visual tracking data. Motivation: In many cases, fine grain location based information is preferred. One example

Map Displays for Information Retrieval

by Xia Lin - Journal of the American Society for Information Science , 1997
"... The focus of this article is to develop a map display for to stack in the dark, without knowing what stacks that information retrieval. Through an examination of relationships among visual displays, information retrieval, and browsing, advantages of visual displays for informa-tion retrieval are cha ..."
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place (to among given documents, and reveals the relationships modify queries interactively). through a spatial arrangement of terms abstracted from Can we turn on the light for such a library? Can we the documents. The map display also provides inter-active tools to allow the user to interact

Visual Analytics Browsers to Support Awareness and Social Interaction

by Alison Lee, Andreas Girgensohn
"... Information sharing and social interaction are the Web’s main features that have enabled online communities to abound and flourish. However, the Web is lacking cues and browsing mechanisms for the online social spaces. That is, such spaces look and feel abstract and informational rather than invitin ..."
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; and what forms of participation are val-visitors explore information ued. Thus, users need support for social browsing in such spaces. and patterns. Here we On the flip side, active contributors to social spaces (such as Web com-present social browsers for munities) lack the means to present a public face

Ontowiki - a tool for social, semantic collaboration

by Sebastian Dietzold, Thomas Riechert - In ISWC 2006, volume 4273 of LNCS , 2006
"... Abstract We present OntoWiki, a tool providing support for agile, dis-tributed knowledge engineering scenarios. OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic con-tent, with an ..."
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Abstract We present OntoWiki, a tool providing support for agile, dis-tributed knowledge engineering scenarios. OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic con

A Survey of Visualization Tools that Promote Awareness of Software Development Activities

by Erik H. Trainer, David F. Redmiles , 2009
"... In recent years, research attention in the software engineering community has shifted from process management and workflow tools that aim to plan for all coordination activity and eventualities before development begins to a new generation of more flexible tools that saturate the developer's wo ..."
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's workspace with information at varying degrees of granularity and in different visual, and often interactive, representations. The common thread that runs through these tools is the objective of supporting awareness of software developers‘ activities, in order to put one‘s own activities in context. Despite

Location-Aware Active Signage

by Patrick James Nichols, II , 2004
"... Three-dimensional route maps, which depict a path from one location to another, can be powerful tools for visualizing and communicating directions. This thesis presents a client-server architecture for generating and displaying accurate, usable route maps between locations on MIT's campus. Two ..."
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Three-dimensional route maps, which depict a path from one location to another, can be powerful tools for visualizing and communicating directions. This thesis presents a client-server architecture for generating and displaying accurate, usable route maps between locations on MIT's campus. Two

Applying the Design Structure Matrix to system decomposition and integration problems: a review and new directions

by Tyson R. Browning - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
"... organizations requires tools and techniques for system decompo-sition and integration. A design structure matrix (DSM) provides a simple, compact, and visual representation of a complex system that supports innovative solutions to decomposition and inte-gration problems. The advantages of DSMs vis-à ..."
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organizations requires tools and techniques for system decompo-sition and integration. A design structure matrix (DSM) provides a simple, compact, and visual representation of a complex system that supports innovative solutions to decomposition and inte-gration problems. The advantages of DSMs vis-à

Workspace Awareness Support with Radar Views

by Carl Gutwin, Saul Greenberg, Mark Roseman - Conference companion of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’96 , 1996
"... Real-time groupware systems often let each participant control their own view into a shared workspace. This strategy can reduce awareness about where and how others are interacting with the document or the workspace artifacts. We have designed a number of awareness widgets to help people regain this ..."
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this awareness. In this paper we present several radar views that provide awareness information on top of a global overview of the workspace. Our displays give lightweight access to information about others ’ locations and activities, providing for richer person-to-person interaction in groupware systems.

Traces: Visualizing the Immediate Past to Support Group Interaction

by Carl Gutwin - PROC. GRAPHICS INTERFACE , 2002
"... Virtual embodiments of people in groupware systems provide a wealth of information to others in the group. They allow for explicit gestural communication, and they provide implicit awareness information about people’s locations and activities. However, the constraints of current networked groupware ..."
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Virtual embodiments of people in groupware systems provide a wealth of information to others in the group. They allow for explicit gestural communication, and they provide implicit awareness information about people’s locations and activities. However, the constraints of current networked groupware
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