Virtual School Visualization

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Virtual School Visualization
Marcus Beale
Purvi Saraiya
Marty Einstein
(McCrickard)
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• The Virtual School Project
• Provides a mean to allow e-communication between
  2 schools working on a common project.
• Chat Facility
• Video Tele-Conferencing.
• File Sharing(Notebook)
• Email Facility(X)
• The sessions have been recorded in the form of
  logs.

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• Our Visualization Approach
• -Show how participants communicate-
• Time (integrating factor)
• People Involved
• Message avenue and content

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• Advantages
• Easy to follow conversations.
• Four levels of Overview and Details.
• Better window management.
• Large time periods.

• Disadvantages
• Scarce data leads to visual cluttering.
• Occlusion!
• Only 3 windows open a time without clutter.
• No means of sorting messages by other attributes
  such as length or content.

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• Future Work
• The ability to filter data types (message
  medium).
• The details of the area where the mouse is
  currently pointed.
• The details of the changes between Notebook
  Versions.
• Better Color Scheme.
• Non-Linear Time to improve conversation graph.
• Improving sparse data visualization details
  overview.

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Thanks! Any Questions?