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Visualization for constructing and sharing geo-scientific concepts
Visualization for constructing and sharing geo-scientific concepts
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Geographic/ information visualization can help collaborators construct and communicate knowledge structures that reflect the multidimensional connections among people, perspectives, data, and concepts at different conceptual scales. The research we report is part of a science infrastructure project within which we are building a distributed collaboratory to support the work of four research sites that make up the Human Environment Regional Observatory (HERO)
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These representations, as a complement to sharing knowledge through natural language, also support sharing and negotiation among scientists about the concepts that underpin joint work. We propose that the visually enabled concept representation and sharing methods we are developing will be particularly useful for asynchronous collaboration.
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The second driver of our research in developing tools to support knowledge construction is the combined domains of information/geographic visualization and diagrammatic reasoning. The information visualization community has developed a wide array of information exploration methods applicable to categorical data that can support interaction with scientific concepts.
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Visually Enabled Concept Building, Sharing, and Application In this section, we present strategies for integration of exploratory geovisualization, information visualization, and diagrammatic reasoning methods and tools to support concept development, representation, and sharing. Specifically, we present some of our early steps toward achieving the separate aims of (i)
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3, are created by individual or groups of researchers using a concept-graphing tool available through the HERO Web portal. This tool allows scientists to visually encode knowledge structures using conceptual graphing techniques.
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: Visually Enabled Knowledge Work As noted above, this article provides just a sketch of a comprehensive conceptual approach we are developing for enabling and understanding the process of concept construction in humanenvironment science. Further work needs to be directed toward formalizing this approach, extending methods for concept visualization, integrating visualization with groupware to enable visual support for group thinking, and applying the results in the living laboratory of the HERO project.
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Integrating Visualization with Groupware. A related goal is to draw on the range of recent developments in methods for visually enabled group work, diagrammatic reasoning, and argument visualization and fuse them by exploratory visualization methods to provide a flexible environment to support group knowledge building.
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(2000) in Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2000 (Info Vis 2000)
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