Using social agents to visualize software scenarios

Authors:
Thomas A. Alspaugh;Bill Tomlinson;Eric Baumer
Affiliations:
University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine
Venue:
SoftVis '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Enabling nonexperts to understand a software system and the scenarios of usage of that system can be challenging. Visually modeling a collection of scenarios as social interactions can provide quicker and more intuitive understanding of the system described by those scenarios. This project combines a scenario language with formal structure and automated tool support (ScenarioML) and an interactive graphical game engine featuring social automomous characters and text-to-speech capabilities. We map scenarios to social interactions by assigning a character to each actor and entity in the scenarios, and animate the interactions among these as social interactions among the corresponding characters. The social interactions can help bring out these important aspects: interactions of multiple agents, pattern and timing of interactions, non-local inconsistencies within and among scenarios, and gaps and missing information in the scenario collection. An exploratory study of this modeling's effectiveness is presented.