Designing task visualizations to support the coordination of work in software development

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-48

  Halverson, Christine A ^a   Ellis, Jason B ^a   Danis, Catalina ^a   Kellogg, Wendy A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change tracking systems; Coordination of work; Information visualization; Social visualization; Software development; Task visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CHANGE TRACKING SYSTEMS; COORDINATION OF WORK; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; SOCIAL VISUALIZATION; TASK VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547221055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180875.1180883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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