CocoViz: Supported Cognitive Software Visualization

Boccuzzo, Sandro; Gall, Harald C.

doi:10.1109/wcre.2007.17

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“…[10,2,36]), but with different goals compared to this work. Boccuzzo et al [4] describe an interesting usage of the concept of well-shaped graphical visualization to represent that the corresponding artifact is well designed. Their work shows that the metaphor "language" can be used to express information (quality aspects) about the artifacts that are being represented.…”

Section: B Visual Communication Metaphors In Rementioning

confidence: 99%

Tackling the requirements jigsaw puzzle

Pinto-Albuquerque

Rashid

2014

2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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A key challenge during stakeholder meetings is that of presenting the requirements and conflicts to stakeholders in a way that fosters co-responsibility and co-ownership regarding the conflicts and their resolution. In this paper, we propose a jigsaw puzzle metaphor to make identified conflicts explicit as well as an associated method to utilise this metaphor during stakeholder meetings. The metaphor provides an easy to understand language for stakeholders from otherwise diverse backgrounds. It enables stakeholders to work with a well-understood concept -that of building a system from misshapen pieces. These characteristics foster communication and team work, which improve commitment of stakeholders in co-authoring of requirements and co-responsibility in conflict handling. The gamification of conflict resolution also promotes a relaxed environment, which in turn improves team cooperation and creativity. Our experience in three user studies demonstrates that the jigsaw puzzle indeed improves such co-responsibility and co-ownership when compared with typical text-based representations of requirements.

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Section: B Visual Communication Metaphors In Rementioning

confidence: 99%

Tackling the requirements jigsaw puzzle

Pinto-Albuquerque

Rashid

2014

2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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“…For the user study we used an extended version of our CocoViz-Implementation [6], which implements all the previously mentioned audio concepts.…”

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Software visualization with audio supported cognitive glyphs

Boccuzzo

Gall

2008

2008 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

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There exist numerous software visualization techniques that aim to facilitate program comprehension. One of the main concerns in every such software visualization is to identify relevant aspects fast and provide information in an effective way. In previous work, we developed a cognitive visualization technique and tool called CocoViz that uses common place metaphors for an intuitive understanding of software structures and evolution. In this paper, we address software comprehension by a combination of visualization and audio. Evolution and structural aspects are annotated with different audio to represent concepts such as design erosion, code smells or evolution metrics. We use audio concepts such as loudness, sharpness, tone pitch, roughness or oscillation and map those to properties of classes and packages. As such we provide an audio annotation of software entities along their version history for software analysis and software browsing. Our first results with the prototype and a small user study show that with this combination of visual and aural means we can facilitate program comprehension and provide additional information that usually is not provided by current visualization approaches. Software Visualization with Audio Supported Cognitive Glyphs

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“…The main contribution is an extended CocoViz audio-visualization approach, where we use environmental influenced aural feedback during navigation in a visualization. The described approaches were implemented in a extended version of our CocoViz Tool [3].…”

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CocoViz with ambient audio software exploration

Boccuzzo

Gall

2009

2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering

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For ages we used our ears side by side with our ophthalmic stimuli to gather additional information, leading and supporting us in our visualization. Nowadays numerous software visualization techniques exist that aim to facilitate program comprehension. In this paper we discuss how we can support such software comprehension visualization with environmental audio and lead users to identify relevant aspects. We use cognitive visualization techniques and audio concepts described in our previous work to create an ambient audio software exploration (AASE) out of program entities (packages, classes ...) and their mapped properties. The concepts where implemented in a extended version of our tool called CocoViz. Our first results with the prototype shows that with this combination of visual and aural means we can provide additional information to lead users during program comprehension tasks.

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CocoViz: Supported Cognitive Software Visualization

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Tackling the requirements jigsaw puzzle

Tackling the requirements jigsaw puzzle

Software visualization with audio supported cognitive glyphs

CocoViz with ambient audio software exploration

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