11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)
Visualization of Knowledge Structures
Zurich, Switzerland
July 04-July 06
ISBN: 0-7695-2900-3
In this article, Visual Concept Explorer (VCE), a concept mapping tool, is introduced and its design principles are described. VCE creates dynamic concept maps for the user and facilitates user?s visual interaction to concepts and documents. Its central idea is to make implicit knowledge structures explicit. As an example of practical knowledge mapping application, VCE has characteristics of both information visualization and knowledge visualization.