期刊名称：International Journal of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering
电子版ISSN：2277-1956
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：4
页码：1219-1230
出版社：Buldanshahr : IJECSE
摘要：We have developed and been enhancing a web counseling system, especially to help people working overseas these years. A great deal of data about users has been generated through these years. The counselor needs to grasp the user's situation from these data. However, since there are various types of data, it is very difficult to compare among different kinds of data and extract features from them. To cope with these problems, it is useful and helpful to visualize data. Visualization of data is an important theme in various fields. There are many studies and tools concerned with visualizing data. Among them, Excel is a typical software used by many people to visualize data in 2D graphs. However it is recognized that 2D graphs have various restrictions. On the other hand, now we are attempting to incorporate SCT (Sentence Completion Test) into the web counseling system. SCT is used as one type of psychological assessment by hospitals, schools, companies, and so on. Its effectiveness has been observed as a test that can grasp the internal status and external status of the subject in detail. However, evaluations of SCT have shown that it relies on professionals' subjectivity. What is more desirable is a system that depends not merely on the professionals' feelings or experiences, but is capable of carrying out universal evaluations backed by objective data. The purpose of this study is to provide counselors with a 3D visualization tool of psychological data. In this study we gather users' data from the web counseling system and quantitatively analyze the data from sentential responses by subjects taking the SCT, visualizing the data or the results to an easily understood 3D graph. The 3D display is implemented in a spiral shape by the Processing project. Our visualization method uses the spiral feature to visualize the psychological data. The data is displayed on one cycle of the direction of width of the X-axis and the Y-axis and arranged on the standard which specified the direction of length of the Z-axis. Colored according to quantity, the overall tendencies and features can be grasped visually by rotating the entire spiral. In addition, when using the 3D operation and a compact display of the spiral, from the operation to move the center point of view of the cylinder of the spiral, it is possible easily to grasp the numeric value of each item for people with certain common features
关键词：Visualization; Spiral; 3D; Data; Web Counseling System; SCT; Text Analysis
