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Visual modelling and the Web: conceptual browsing with Conzilla
(Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Conzilla is the first incarnation of the idea of a "conceptual browser". A conceptual browser presents the conceptual relationships between a set of concepts in the form of surfable "concept maps", and allows the surfer to, separately, engage in content describing these concepts. Concept maps are visually similar to UML diagrams, or more general mind-maps, but adds "browsing" capabilities in the form of hyperlinks to other maps as well as content links, linking any type of textual or multimedial content. This results in a clear separation between the context and the content of the presented material, something that is missing in today's web environment. It can also be seen as a form of meta-data oriented browser, as all objects in the system are marked up using IMS conforming meta-data.
Conzilla is being developed at CID, Center for user oriented Information technology Design at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where it takes part of an interdisciplinary initiative in the field of interactive learning environments.
- Presentation slides
- e-mail: mini@nada.kth.se
- URL: http://cid.nada.kth.se/il/conzilla