Why Expressive Matters in Command and Control Visualizations

Genest, A., Bateman, S., Tang, A., Scott, S., and Gutwin, C. (2012). Why Expressive Matters in Command and Control Visualizations. In Collaboration and Crisis Informatics - Workshop at CSCW 2012.

Abstract

Crisis command centres often gather data from disparate locations and collect it for visualization on a large, shared screen. However, the resulting visualization often lacks expressiveness: it fails to express nuanced mediating characteristics about the information, such as specificity, urgency, awareness, or reliability. We suggest that our previous work on creating expressive realtime embodiments can inform the design of crisis management embodiments on large displays, improving communication and decision-making. We make several recommendations for future research directions

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2012-cscw2012-workshop-expressiveness-in-c-and-c.pdf)
URL (http://crisisinformatics.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{genest2012expressivenessmatters,
  year = {2012},
  url = {http://crisisinformatics.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/},
  type = {workshop},
  title = {Why Expressive Matters in Command and Control Visualizations},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2012-cscw2012-workshop-expressiveness-in-c-and-c.pdf},
  editor = {Volkmar Pipek and Jonas Landgren and Leysia Palen},
  date-modified = {2014-01-22 04:28:31 +0000},
  date-added = {2014-01-22 04:26:38 +0000},
  booktitle = {Collaboration and Crisis Informatics - Workshop at CSCW 2012},
  author = {Genest, Aaron and Bateman, Scott and Tang, Anthony and Scott, Stacey
and Gutwin, Carl},
  abstract = {Crisis command centres often gather data from disparate locations and
collect it for visualization on a large, shared screen. However, the resulting
visualization often lacks expressiveness: it fails to express nuanced mediating
characteristics about the information, such as specificity, urgency, awareness,
or reliability. We suggest that our previous work on creating expressive realtime
embodiments can inform the design of crisis management embodiments on large
displays, improving communication and decision-making. We make several recommendations
for future research directions},
}