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VizCMAP is a analysis tool for comparing CMaps between pre-search and post-search.
Once you transcribe concept maps into GraphViz? (dot) format, this tool allows you to you can easily check what was changed between two concept maps, as follows.
The nodes encircled with double lines represent the common nodes. The links drawn with double lines with large arrows represent the common links. The nodes encircled by a dashed line represent the lost nodes, and the links drawn with a dashed line are the lost links. The nodes encircled by a solid line represent the new nodes, and the links drawn with a solid line are the new links. Please refer to the following paper for an overview of analysis methods on pre- and post-search concept maps:
Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando: "Using a Concept Map to Evaluate Exploratory Search". The 3rd Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2010); New Brunswick, NJ, USA; pp.175-184 (2010-08) http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1840784.1840810
The VizCMap tool is available as Open Source Software.
You can browse source files under http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/cres/svn/view/cmap/.
You can download the latest codes via Subversion. Please refer to the guide for Subversion repository at: http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/cres/cvs/
This tool is an outcome of the CRES Project. This project was partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas A01-38 titled "Information Access Technologies Supporting Exploration and Learning" (19024068) and by a National Institute of Informatics Joint Research Grant titled "Study on Construction of Cognitive Models for Information Seeking Behavior and Its Applications".
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