Automated versioning and temporal navigation for model sketches on large interactive displays

Abstract

The development of complex software systems requires the collaboration and mutual understanding of stakeholders from various backgrounds, which is usually facilitated by joint design of complex graphical models. To support this collaboration, we introduce the concept of a so-called "Augmented Interaction Room" that is equipped with large interactive wall displays, each dedicated to a particular modeling perspective. These models evolve significantly over the project life-cycle as uncertainties are resolved and design decisions are made. Our focus in this paper is to help stakeholders obtain a clearer view of the models' evolution and past design rationales, without incurring significant cognitive effort for navigating a potentially very long and detailed model revision history. For this purpose, we describe mechanisms for storing the history of the continuously evolving models, and methods for temporal navigation that semi-automatically identify particularly relevant past model versions.

Supporting collaboration of heterogeneous teams in an augmented team room

“…However, it is also conceivable that users will wish to import externally created diagrams into the room. Though we already selected the file formats with respect to that [28,30], how we can efficiently import many externally created sketches or diagrams at once and automatically insert them into our graph at the proper location is still an open research question.…”

Tangible interactions for temporal navigation in a virtual environment

“…Pour formaliser des activités humaines associées à des dispositifs socio-techniques Laubé et al ont proposé ANY-Artefact [11] qui se base lui-même sur CIDOC-CRM 2 et Dolce [7]. Ce modèle est centré sur la représentation des activités 7 , des acteurs 8 et des savoirs 9 . Cependant ANY-Artefact ne permet 7 Activité : agrégation des concepts de savoirs, d'acteur et d'artefact afin de modéliser les pratiques culturelles et industrielles 8 Acteur : la personne physique qui représente l'acteur ou le personnage qui représente une fonction ou un poste.…”

“…L'interface WIMP 6 proposée5 PDA : Personnal Digital Assistant6 WIMP : Windows, Icon, Menu, Pointer permet de naviguer temporellement par incrément d'année (cf.figure 1). En 2014, Kleffmann et al[9] proposent une salle de réunion augmentée permettant de sauvegarder les notes et commentaires issus de la réunion ainsi que leurs modifications au cours du temps. L'interface permet de naviguer dans le temps pour observer les évolutions des fichiers sauvegardés.…”

AugIR

“…Until now, three other papers of mine have been accepted for different conferences and workshops, describing the automated recovering and maintenance of trace links between model sketches [6], the automated versioning and temporal navigation for model sketches [8], and the navigation and visualization techniques described in section 4.1 [7]. Additionally, I submitted a fullpaper to SSE 2014, presenting my approach to automatically identifying inconsistencies, contradictions and potential project risks, as described in section 4.2.…”