CoCoNutTrix: Collaborative Retrofitting for Information Visualization

• Published in: IEEE computer graphics and applications Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 44 - 57
• Main Authors: Isenberg, P., Carpendale, S., Bezerianos, A., Henry, N., Fekete, J.-D.
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01-09-2009; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series: Special Issue on Collaborative Visualization
• Subjects: Algorithms; Collaboration; collaborative information visualization; colocated collaboration; Computer Graphics; Computer Science; Computer Simulation; Cooperative Behavior; Data analysis; Data processing; Data visualization; Graphs; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Mice; Models, Theoretical; network visualization; Retrofitting; social-network analysis; Software; User-Computer Interface; Visualization
• ISSN: 0272-1716; 1558-1756
• DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2009.78

In this paper, the authors retrofitted a version of NodeTrix, a single-user graph visualization environment based on the InfoVis toolkit, to support multiple independent mice. The resulting low-cost environment was called CoCoNutTrix (Colocated Collaborative NodeTrix). Then, it was assessed how analysts viewed CoCoNutTrix and whether it effectively supported collaborative data analysis among domain experts using real data sets for social-network analysis. Our goal is to refine and expand our knowledge about retrofitting and hence designing colocated collaborative- visualization systems.