Meeting Support by Visualizing Discussion Structure and Semantics
In this paper, we present a method for visualizing a structure of
discussion in an electronic conference environment, and propose a
prototype system. The system assists users to understand the
transition of the argument and the whole structure of the argument by
visualizing the relationship between utterances from the view points
of the cause-and-effect and the semantics. The system provides the
Cause-and-Effect View by using a tree structure, and Semantice View by
using a spring model. The transition from one view to other is
seamless so as to enable users to keep track of thinking.