Who is on my team: building strong teams in interdisciplinary visualization courses

While it seems that interdisciplinary collaboration in a visualization course is (theoretically) a very good idea, the practical undergoing is problematic: in a single semester course students need to find project partners out of a group of students they do not know at all, establish a “common ground” with their new partners and create an expressive and effective solution to a visualization problem. This paper reports on a one semester course given to 48 interdisciplinary students (29 computer science, 14 business information systems, 5 non-technical1 ), the strategies chosen to support interdisciplinary collaboration, and expectations and feedback on the collaboration as experienced by the students. CR Categories I.6.9. [Visualization]. K.3.2 [Computers and Education]: Computer and Information Science Education – computer science education, curriculum, information systems education. Keywords Interdisciplinary collaboration in visualization, forming interdisciplinary groups, tra...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SIGGRAPH
• Authors: Gitta Domik
• Keywords: Computer Graphics, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Semester Course, SIGGRAPH 2009, Visualization Course