Attributed graph visualization of collaborative workspaces

Collaborative workspaces are becoming increasingly commonplace, particularly in large, distributed organizations where virtual teams formed in order to jointly carry out collaborative project work. Typical collaborative workspaces often have a large number of objects and relations as well as their associated domain-specific attributes. The visualization of these domain-specific attributes is the challenge of this research. This paper presents a new approach for visualizing the attributes of objects and relations in collaborative workspaces. This new visualization provides not only a structural view of the collaborative workspaces but also a graphical view of a variety of domain-specific attributes associated with collaborative objects and relations. This paper also describes a framework for the attributed visualization of collaborative workspaces.