Analysis of Ontology Visualization Techniques for Modular Curricula

  • Authors:
  • Simone Kriglstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria A-1010

  • Venue:
  • USAB '08 Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for Education and Work
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

It is often a challenge for students and lecturers to see the dependences between courses and modules in curricula that exhibit complex interrelationships. Therefore, a visual representation of the structure and the relations between courses and modules helps to transparently expose curricular structures. Visualization via ontologies is a good alternative to show the structure and their interrelationship. Furthermore, ontologies give users the possibilities to understand, exchange, analyze or share knowledge of a specific domain. However, it is a big challenge for the visualization to represent ontology in a way that is useable for users according to their needs. Based on the fact that more research is needed in regard to ontology visualization with respect to users' needs, we present an example how an ontology based on a curriculum can be composed and analyze three different visualization techniques to find out useful requirements.