Visualization of Course Requisites

• Author / Creator

  Arango Moreno, Camilo

• We present an interactive tool for browsing the requisites between courses in the University of Alberta as a case study of dependency visualization. This tool uses multiple interactive visualizations to allow the user to explore the courses' dependencies. We performed a usability study that showed that students perform planning tasks faster and more accurately using our tool compared to Bear Tracks, the current registration system used at the university, which only provides textual descriptions of the course requisites.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Requisites
  • Course
  • Graph
  • Data
  • Dependency
  • Visualization

• Graduation date

  Fall 2009

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Science

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3D08M

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.