Margaret-Anne Storey, Davor Cubranic, Daniel German, "On the use of visualization to support awareness of human activities in software development: A survey and a framework", ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis), 2005

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This paper proposes a framework for describing, comparing and
understanding visualization tools that provide awareness of human
activities in software development. The framework has several pur-
poses – it can act as a formative evaluation mechanism for tool
designers; as an assessment tool for potential tool users; and as a
comparison tool so that tool researchers can compare and under-
stand the differences between various tools and identify potential
new research areas. We use this framework to structure a survey of
visualization tools for activity awareness in software development.
Based on this survey we suggest directions for future research.