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Innovative Visualization Tools to Monitor Scientific Cooperative Activities

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2007)

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This paper describes how information visualization techniques can be used to monitor a web-based collaborative platform and to support workplace awareness by providing a global overview of the activities. An innovative prototype is described. Its originality relies on using some enclosure-based visualization methods in the context of activities monitoring, which is rather unusual. In addition, a new layout is described for representing data trees. The use of the system is illustrated with the case of a EU-funded Network of Excellence.

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  1. Public Research Center – Gabriel Lippmann, Department ISC – Informatics, Systems and Collaboration, 41, Rue du Brill, L-4422 Belvaux, Luxembourg

    Benoît Otjacques & Fernand Feltz

  2. University of Namur (FUNDP), Computer Science Institute, 21, Rue Grangagnage, B-5000 Namur, Belgium

    Monique Noirhomme

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Otjacques, B., Noirhomme, M., Feltz, F. (2007). Innovative Visualization Tools to Monitor Scientific Cooperative Activities. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74780-2_4

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