An effective demonstration for group collaboration based on storyline visualization technology

Abstract

The existing project management software cannot demonstrate the relation of the group collaboration during a project, while they are useful for many projects to control their progress and process. Given their drawbacks, this paper introduces the storyline, a visualization technology that can make up the limitation. The complex relation of group collaboration can be visualized by the storyline layout through the mappings of being from the developer's entity object to lines, from the job tasks to the inter-sessions, and from the cooperative relation among the entity objects to the distance between lines. The result shows that the storyline works well in the project management as they can display the cooperative relation among the developers clearly and intuitively. Based on that, we can analyze the cooperative relationship of developers so as to improve the efficiency of the project management.