Project Description
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As well as being very successful for large scale collaborative sites
such as Wikipedia, wikis are becoming a very popular medium for small
team collaboration. In such a setting, particularly in the early
stages of wiki use, the wiki can be very dynamic. It is important for
team members to coordinate their activities which involves being aware
of one another's actions on the wiki. In order to be aware of their
team members actions, users need to constantly update their mental
model of the structure of the site which is something that is not very
well supported by a traditional wiki.
WikiNavMap is a visualisation which gives a dynamic overview of a wiki
structure. Using a colour gradients and the ability for users to
customise what is visualised, WikiNavMap allows users to quickly see
what has changed in a wiki and who has made those changes. WikiNavMap
is a plugin for the advanced wiki and issue tracking system, Trac, and
is written in Python using Graphviz for the visualisation elements.
AJAX techniques, similar to those used in Google Maps, were used to
make it easier to navigate the, potentially very large,
visualisations, as well as providing an interface to customise what is
displayed.
Key Publications
A. Ullman and J. Kay. WikiNavMap: a visualisation to supplement team-based wikis. In CHI '07: CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, pages 2711-2716, New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM Press. [View Details]
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