The Affinity+ concept has the potential to be useful in educational settings such as schools, museums, and libraries. Although it was designed to support collaborative activities among software designers/developers, it could support a wide range of collaborative project-based learning activities. The clearly narrated video below was produced by a team from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
"Affinity diagraming is a powerful method for encouraging and capturing lateral thinking in a group environment. The Affinity+ Concept was designed to improve the collaborative brainstorm process through the use of large display surfaces in conjunction with mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. The system works by capturing the ideas digitally and allowing users to sort and group them on a large touch screen manually. Additionally, Affinity+ incorporates theme detection, topic clustering, and other processing algorithms that help bring structured analytic techniques to the process without requiring explicit leadership roles and other overhead typically involved in these activities." -PNNL
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Affinity+ Semi-Structured Brainstorming on Large Displays
Russ Burtner, Richard May, Randy Scarberry, Ryan LaMothe, Alex Endert
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Information Visualization Core Area: Natural User Interactions
Information Visualization Core Area: User Experience
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Large Displays: Will it ever be enough? (pdf)
Richard May, Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Although this paper is from 2006, it contains a discussion of the "Top Ten Research Challenges" associated with large high-resolution displays:
A Survey of Large High-Resolution Display Technologies, Techniques, and Applications (pdf)
Tao Ni, Greg S. Schmidt, Oliver G. Staadt, Mark A Livingston, Robert Ball, Richard May
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2006, pp223-226 Virginia Tech, 2006
Advanced Visualization and Interaction Techniques for Large High-Resolution Displays (pdf)
Sebastian Thelen (in Ariane Middel, Inga Scheler, and Hans Hagen (eds.), Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets - Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modeling and Engineering (IRTG 1131 Workshop), VLUDS 2010, March 19-21, 2010, Bodega Bay, CA, USA DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.VLUDS.2010.73
Affinity Diagraming
Usability Net
"Affinity diagraming is a powerful method for encouraging and capturing lateral thinking in a group environment. The Affinity+ Concept was designed to improve the collaborative brainstorm process through the use of large display surfaces in conjunction with mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. The system works by capturing the ideas digitally and allowing users to sort and group them on a large touch screen manually. Additionally, Affinity+ incorporates theme detection, topic clustering, and other processing algorithms that help bring structured analytic techniques to the process without requiring explicit leadership roles and other overhead typically involved in these activities." -PNNL
RELATED
Affinity+ Semi-Structured Brainstorming on Large Displays
Russ Burtner, Richard May, Randy Scarberry, Ryan LaMothe, Alex Endert
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Information Visualization Core Area: Natural User Interactions
Information Visualization Core Area: User Experience
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Large Displays: Will it ever be enough? (pdf)
Richard May, Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Although this paper is from 2006, it contains a discussion of the "Top Ten Research Challenges" associated with large high-resolution displays:
A Survey of Large High-Resolution Display Technologies, Techniques, and Applications (pdf)
Tao Ni, Greg S. Schmidt, Oliver G. Staadt, Mark A Livingston, Robert Ball, Richard May
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2006, pp223-226 Virginia Tech, 2006
Advanced Visualization and Interaction Techniques for Large High-Resolution Displays (pdf)
Sebastian Thelen (in Ariane Middel, Inga Scheler, and Hans Hagen (eds.), Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets - Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modeling and Engineering (IRTG 1131 Workshop), VLUDS 2010, March 19-21, 2010, Bodega Bay, CA, USA DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.VLUDS.2010.73
Affinity Diagraming
Usability Net
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