| VUE | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Developer | Academic Technology group at Tufts University |
| Initial release | July 20, 2005 (2005-07-20)1 |
| Stable release | 3.3.0
/ October 8, 2015 (2015-10-08) |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English, French, Portuguese, Greek, Italian. Partial translations: Bulgarian, Chinese, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish.2 |
| Type | Concept Mapping software |
| License | ECL |
| Website | vue |
| Repository | |
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a free, open-source concept mapping application written in Java. The application is developed by the Academic Technology group at Tufts University. VUE is licensed under the Educational Community License. VUE 3.0, the latest release, was funded under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As of 2026, VUE has not received an update since October 2015.
Background
The VUE project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology focuses on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources to support teaching, learning, and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept-mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital resources drawn from digital libraries and local and remote file systems.
VUE builds on two theories of learning: constructivism, which holds that students learn more effectively when actively engaging with information rather than passively receiving it, and cognitive load theory, which informed the application's approach to managing the limits of working memory.3 As a research platform, VUE has supported experimental interfaces including a semantic fisheye-zooming prototype.4
Releases
Tufts University's VUE development team has coordinated releases of the VUE project. The project's most recent release, VUE 3, has added many new features which distinguish it from traditional concept mapping tools.5 made by the VUE team on their forums, new features include: tools for dynamic presentation of maps, map merge and analysis tools, enhanced keyword tagging and search capabilities, support for semantic mapping using ontologies, expanded search of online resources such as Flickr, Yahoo, Twitter, or PubMed.
| Release | Date |
|---|---|
| VUE 3.3.0 | 8 Oct 2015 |
| VUE 3.2.2 | 23 May 2013 |
| VUE 3.1.1 | 16 March 2011 |
| VUE 3.0.2 | 1 July 2010 |
| VUE 3.0 | 3 February 2010 |
| VUE 2.3.1 | 6 May 2009 |
| VUE 2.2 | 20 June 2008 |
| VUE 2.0 | 10 April 2008 |
| VUE 1.4 | 20 July 2005 |
References
References
- "VUE project files". SourceForge.
- "Release notes". Tufts University. Retrieved July 7, 2010.
- Kumar, Anoop; Kahle, David J. (January 2006). "VUE: A Concept Mapping Tool for Digital Content". Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Concept Mapping. San José, Costa Rica.
- Afram, Andrew J.; Briedis, John; Fujiwara, Daisuke; Jacob, Robert J. K.; Cao, Caroline G. L.; Kahle, David (October 2007). "Evaluation of Semantic Fisheye Zooming to Provide Focus+Context". Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 51 (5): 459–463. doi:10.1177/154193120705100507.
- "VUE 3 features announcement". Tufts University. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011.
External links
External links
- VUE's website
- VUE User Forums Archived 2010-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
- VUE on Sourceforge
- VUE community on Ning