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Almost all projects can be considered as cooperative undertakings. Their strategic management as well as the daily operations causes numerous interactions to occur, either among persons or among persons and resources. These interactions have been studied from various viewpoints but few researchers have focused on their visualization. The graphical representation of the cooperation is however a powerful tool to help the project participants to get a correct understanding of the situation. This paper proposes thus a structuring framework (IVF – Interaction Visualization Framework) of the visualization techniques used to display such interactions. Three basic axes of classification are used to structure the study. Which objects are visualized? Why are they visualized? How are they visualized? For each axis, several properties have been identified and the admitted values have been specified. This work can be considered as a first step towards a structured view of the ‘visualization of cooperation’ domain.
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Otjacques, B., Noirhomme, M., Feltz, F. (2005). Visualization of Interactions Within a Project: The IVF Framework. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11555223_7
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