System Visualizations and Functionality
FLEXIBILTY!
Flexibility, Flexibility, Flexibility…
User Driven
Options Based on Utility
Arrangements of Visulations
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Modular interface components
• Graphs, charts, maps can be given preference
• User specified dashboard
Multiple points of Entry
• Different visualizations can be set as a starting point
• Interface components must be interconnected
Multiple levels of detail
• Different levels of detail to available to serve the needs
of the task at hand
• Interface components that are sensitive to different
levels of Understanding/ Domain Knowledge
Arrangment / Analysis of Data
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Ability specify custom “Filters”
User specific syndromes
• Ability to track self- defined items
• Specify personal sentinels
Basic data manipulations
• Sorting, grouping
• Configurable combinations
 “I want to see this sysndrome and that one on the
same graph”
 Specify axes and modes of analysis
User / System Interactions
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System should have multiple “display” and “notifications”
Online monitoring
• Quick analytics
• Detailed online analisys
Offline “printed” information
Multiple alerting capabilities
• Email, phone, pager etc..
• User configurable opt/in-out
Data level Interactions
• Exports
• Predefined reports
Function
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Limitations of Data are made Visible
Incomplete / Missing data are made Visible
User Response / Analysis can be integrated into interface
• Ability set comments for signals
• Ability to create a record of signal investigation
• Must be displayed with analytics so that it is visible
Next Steps
Investigate visualization techniques
from other fields with similar data
structures
 Increase level of participation with
stakeholders to help determine
interface and functional components
 Encourage “Outside the Box” design
 Formal Evaluation of Current
Practices
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