Title: The use of event logs for collaborative practices reflection

Authors: František Babič; Jozef Wagner; Ján Paralič

Addresses: Centre for Information Technologies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9/B, 042 01 Košice, Slovakia. ' Centre for Information Technologies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9/B, 042 01 Košice, Slovakia. ' Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9/B, 042 01 Košice, Slovakia

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present an original solution for reflection on collaborative practices within learning or working processes mediated by a virtual environment, from which the events are logged and used for analysis. The stored event logs cover performed user activities or single actions in investigated collaborative environment. On the middleware level several services are implemented to manage effective logging mechanism and to execute straight analytical methods that work with available dataset and provide results in specified format. In described case, timeline-based visualisation has been designed, implemented and evaluated as an attractive and effective solution for students, teachers, researchers and professionals. The explanation of historical data is a core element of the complex evaluation in order to identify positive or negative aspects of used practices.

Keywords: reflection; collaborative practices; timeline; event logs; virtual environment; collaboration; visualisation; learning; work processes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2012.049313

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2012 Vol.6 No.5, pp.421 - 435

Received: 11 Feb 2011
Accepted: 25 Nov 2011
Published online: 16 Aug 2014 *

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