On the use of visualization to support awareness of human activities in software development: A survey and a framework

Proceedings SoftVis '05 - ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 193-202

  Storey, Margaret Anne D ^a   Čubranić, Davor ^a   German, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awareness; Computer Supported Collaborative Work; Software Development; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; TOOL DESIGNERS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 26444530366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056018.1056045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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