VUE

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an application for concept and content mapping for students, academic workers, CEOs, managers and writers which provides a simple yet powerful set of tools and a basic visual grammar consisting of nodes and links, and maps relationships between concepts, ideas and digital content to organize, contextualize, and access digital information.

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) provides features such as make mind maps and charts, format easily and annotate items, use layers, analyze charts, add semantic relations, share users’ work, export in several image formats and pdf (the latter is usually available only in commercial apps), map the content dynamically and use “outside” sources, make presentations, creating pathways, playback pathways, interactive zoom, visual pruning, exploration tool, importing and visualizing a RSS feed in VUE, importing a CSV file into VUE, joining two CSV datasets, mapping a Zotero collection into VUE, VUE - Seasr integration, map based searching and semantic analysis, ontologies, merge maps, connectivity analysis and keywords. Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a Java-based program that runs on most operating systems and allows great creativity in brainstorming and visual organization of material.

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) has a presentation mode” which by creating “pathways” (the order in which nods/items are trigged) lets users “replay” the path in full screen together with annotations that allows seamless presentations where just like in the Power Point users can have rudimentary presentations even without annotations and keywords. VUE also provides supports for in-depth analysis of maps, with the ability to merge maps and export connectivity matrices to import in statistical packages.

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