Visualization of and interaction with complex graphs on large-scale and high-resolution displays: models, metaphors, and interaction paradigms

所开发的系统应允许软件工程师有效地分析软件系统。要分析的数据包括用图形表示的软件系统的结构和用多维数据表示的实体的度量。两者都是从源代码中提取的，而测量也是手动进行的(错误数、工作量、…)该结构将使用拓扑图和面积感知图进行可视化。多维数据将嵌入到这些图纸中。对于大型软件系统来说，产生的数据非常庞大和复杂。正常的台式计算机不能令人满意地显示概述和详细信息。因此，使用大尺寸和高分辨率的显示器。它们允许显示最多的信息。将使用以人为中心的方法来解决可能出现的问题，如信息过载。基于手势的交互将用于有效地操作这些图形和相关信息。此外，将使用人机界面驱动的开发周期方法来验证这些方法并评估其效率。

The system to be developed shall allow software engineers to analyze software systems efficiently. The data to be analyzed consist of the structure of the software system represented by graphs and the measurements of its entities represented as multi-dimensional data. Both are extracted from the source code, while the measurements are also taken manually (number of errors, effort, …).The structure will be visualized using topology- and area-aware drawings of graphs. The multi-dimensional data will be embedded in these drawings. For large software system, the resulting data is very large and complex. Normal desktop computers cannot display an overview and detailed information satisfactorily. Therefore, large-scale and high-resolution displays are used. They allow showing a maximum of information. A human-centered approach will be used to solve possible problems like information overload. Gesture-based interaction will be used to manipulate these graphs and the associated information efficiently. Further, an HCI-driven development cycle approach will be used to validate the approaches and assess their efficiency.