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Growing bloom: design of a visualization of project evolution

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Bernard Kerr,

Li-Te Cheng,

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CHI EA '06: CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125476

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In this paper we describe the design behind the Bloom Diagram, a tool to visualize the evolution of individual participants' code and comment contributions to open source software projects. The design blends techniques such as concentric pie charts, animation, motion trails, and social proxies to produce a compact presentation of the large scale dynamics around software development. We also briefly present some preliminary findings using data gathered from SourceForge, a popular open source project hosting site, and discuss future directions for this work.

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Gilbert EKarahalios K(2009)Using social visualization to motivate social productionIEEE Transactions on Multimedia10.1109/TMM.2009.201291611:3(413-421)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2009
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Ogawa MMa K(2008)StarGate: A Unified, Interactive Visualization of Software Projects2008 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2008.4475476(191-198)Online publication date: Mar-2008
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Growing bloom: design of a visualization of project evolution
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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Ogawa MMa K(2009)code_swarmIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2009.12315:6(1097-1104)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2009
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Gilbert EKarahalios K(2009)Using social visualization to motivate social productionIEEE Transactions on Multimedia10.1109/TMM.2009.201291611:3(413-421)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TMM.2009.2012916
Ogawa MMa K(2008)StarGate: A Unified, Interactive Visualization of Software Projects2008 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2008.4475476(191-198)Online publication date: Mar-2008
https://doi.org/10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2008.4475476
Ogawa MMa KBird CDevanbu PGourley A(2007)Visualizing social interaction in open source software projects2007 6th International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Visualization10.1109/APVIS.2007.329305(25-32)Online publication date: Feb-2007
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