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Finding and understanding reusable designs from hierarchical repositories
journal contribution
posted on 2006-09-28, 10:07 authored by Peter DemianPeter Demian, Renate FruchterThis paper describes a prototype called CoMem (Corporate Memory) that supports the
finding and understanding of useful items in large hierarchical repositories. The particular
domain is civil engineering design, and the prototype is designed specifically to support
design reuse in building construction projects. However the underlying visualization and
interaction principals behind CoMem are generalizable to the ubiquitous task of finding and
understanding useful information in large hierarchical repositories. To support finding, the
entire hierarchy is visualized using a squarified treemap. Once an item from the treemap is
selected, CoMem supports the understanding of that item by identifying related items in the
hierarchy and visualizing the selected item in the context of these related items in a node-link
diagram. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of a usability evaluation of CoMem
that supports the claim that finding and understanding improve the process of reuse, and that
the described visualizations assist with finding and understanding.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Pages
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DEMIAN, P. and FRUCHTER, R., 2006. Finding and understanding reusable designs from hierarchical repositories. Information Visualization, 5(1), pp. 28-46Publisher
© Palgrave MacmillanPublication date
2006Notes
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in the journal, Information Visualization. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.htmlISSN
1473-8716Language
- en