TY - GEN
T1 - CodeSaw
T2 - 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2007
AU - Gilbert, Eric
AU - Karahalios, Karrie
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We present CodeSaw, a social visualization of distributed software development. CodeSaw visualizes a distributed software community from two important and independent perspectives: code repositories and project communication. By bringing together both shared artifacts (code) and the talk surrounding those artifacts (project mail), CodeSaw reveals group dynamics that lie buried in existing technologies. This paper describes the visualization and its design process. We apply CodeSaw to a popular open source project, showing how the visualization reveals group dynamics and individual roles. The paper ends with a discussion of the results of an online field study with prominent open source developers. The field study suggests that CodeSaw positively affects communities and provides incentives to distributed developers. Furthermore, an important design lesson from the field study leads us to introduce a novel interaction technique for social visualization called spatial messaging.
AB - We present CodeSaw, a social visualization of distributed software development. CodeSaw visualizes a distributed software community from two important and independent perspectives: code repositories and project communication. By bringing together both shared artifacts (code) and the talk surrounding those artifacts (project mail), CodeSaw reveals group dynamics that lie buried in existing technologies. This paper describes the visualization and its design process. We apply CodeSaw to a popular open source project, showing how the visualization reveals group dynamics and individual roles. The paper ends with a discussion of the results of an online field study with prominent open source developers. The field study suggests that CodeSaw positively affects communities and provides incentives to distributed developers. Furthermore, an important design lesson from the field study leads us to introduce a novel interaction technique for social visualization called spatial messaging.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149071632
SN - 9783540747994
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 303
EP - 316
BT - Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2007 - 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
PB - Springer
Y2 - 10 September 2007 through 14 September 2007
ER -