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ERIC Number: EJ1267946
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1648-5831
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Visual Analysis of Contact Patterns in School Environments
Ponciano, Jean R.; Linhares, Claudio D. G.; Melo, Sara L.; Lima, Luciano V.; Travencolo, Bruno A. N.
Informatics in Education, v19 n3 p455-472 2020
Information Visualisation strategies can be applied in a variety of domains. In the context of temporal networks, i.e., networks in which interactions between individuals occur throughout time, efforts have been conducted to develop visual approaches that allow finding interaction patterns, anomalies, and other behaviours not previously perceived in the data. This paper presents two case studies involving real-world education networks from a primary school and a high school. For this purpose, we used the "Massive Sequence View (MSV)" layout with the "Community-based Node Ordering (CNO)" method, two well established approaches for visual analysis of temporal networks. Our results show that the identified patterns involving students/students and students/ teachers represent important information to benefit and support decision making about school management and teaching strategies, especially those related to strategic group formation.
Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Akademjos str. 4, Vilnius LT 08663 Lithuania. Tel: +37-5-21-09300; Fax: +37-5-27-29209; e-mail: info@mii.vu.lt; Web site: https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France
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