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EduVis: visualizing educational information

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Vilma Jordão,

Daniel Gonçalves,

Sandra GamaAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

Pages 1011 - 1014

https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2670263

Published: 26 October 2014 Publication History

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A successful analysis of educational processes may help enhance success. Data Mining techniques, despite allowing analysis of such data, result in an extensive set of symbolic patterns that are difficult to understand. Visualization may overcome this limitation due to its potential to display large quantities of data while alleviating cognitive load. We developed a visualization that allows the analysis of patterns obtained by using educational data mining techniques to gather patterns of interdependences among courses in a university program. We created EduVis, a coordinated visualization which takes advantage of two different, complementary, tools: a multi-layered visualization and a multi-matrix representation of courses and corresponding relationships. Preliminary user tests have shown that EduVis makes important patterns immediately perceivable, suggesting that a small number of adjustments will realize its full potential for visualizing educational information.

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EduVis: visualizing educational information
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

October 2014

361 pages

ISBN:9781450325424

DOI:10.1145/2639189

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Gardasevic SLamba M(2024)“It answers questions that I didn’t know I had”: PhD students’ evaluation of an information-sharing knowledge graphDigital Library Perspectives10.1108/DLP-02-2024-0025Online publication date: 26-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-02-2024-0025
Macedo MPaiva RGasparini IZaina LSantos CBento Villela MGasparini IUchôa Conte T(2020)Vis2LearningProceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3424953.3426627(1-10)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3424953.3426627
Riofrío-Luzcando DRamírez JMoral CAntonio ABerrocal-Lobo M(2019)Visualizing a collective student model for procedural training environmentsMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-018-6641-x78:8(10983-11010)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-018-6641-x

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