Time:  4:45-6:00pm
Room: 276 MSB

Software visualization draws on aspects of program comprehension, reverse engineering, program analysis, and information visualization techniques.  The course will focus on visualization methods and techniques that support various software maintenance and engineering tasks.  The investigation of methods that go beyond the use of current diagrammatic notations for software development will be undertaken.  Both the static and dynamic nature of software systems will be investigated.   In addition, we will examine and utilize research from the areas of information visualization, HCI, graphics, and cognitive psychology.

• Syllabus
• Lecture and presentation schedule
• Reading list
• Project information
• Poster Presentations/Final Exam
  
• Additional sources:
• Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things, Basic Books, 2002 (Amazon has it for $12)
  
• Colin Ware, Information Visualization, Morgan Kaufmann/Academic Press, 2000
• Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999
• John Stasko, John Domingue, Marc Brown, Blaine Price, Software Visualization, MIT Press, 1998