Thank you for your
interest in Lifelines
Yes, now very old LifeLines code is now open source, and you are welcome to
download it at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines/code-opensource-lifelines.zip
Because there is very
little documention is is
important that you know well what Lifelines does… so before you even look at
the code you should watch the video and read the papers we wrote (see main Lifelines webpage).
The code
was last compiled using JDK1.1.8, it still runs fine on our webpage except for
some formatting weirdities. The code itself is in
/lifelines, the documentation is /doc and there are a set of examples in the
top level directory. The main ones are chi.html and kaiser.html. The web
page http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines
will give you information on how to format of the data files (it is not an easy
process but it has been used successfully before to prototype ideas.) Unfortunately we do not have the resources to
provide any support for this code.
In return, we ask that
you give credit to the
Please let us know how
you used LifeLines.
Thank you for your
interest in our research.
Catherine
Plaisant: plaisant@cs.umd.edu or (301)
405-2768
PS: If you are a
corporation we hope that you will consider either:
·
sponsoring our annual Symposium (about 200 attendees). Any
level of contribution would be appreciated (see http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/sponsorship/symposiumsponsor.shtml
for more details)
·
supporting our
research (see http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/sponsorship/
for a review of sponsoring mechanisms)
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Lifelines code includes the following notice:
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LifeLines was written at the Human-Computer
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graduate students
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