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Designing Visual Analytic Tools for Emergency Operation Centers: A Qualitative Approach

Designing Visual Analytic Tools for Emergency Operation Centers: A Qualitative Approach

Richard Arias-Hernandez, Brian Fisher
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 6 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 15
ISSN: 1937-9390|EISSN: 1937-9420|EISBN13: 9781466654938|DOI: 10.4018/IJISCRAM.2014070101
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Arias-Hernandez, Richard, and Brian Fisher. "Designing Visual Analytic Tools for Emergency Operation Centers: A Qualitative Approach." IJISCRAM vol.6, no.3 2014: pp.1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISCRAM.2014070101

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Arias-Hernandez, R. & Fisher, B. (2014). Designing Visual Analytic Tools for Emergency Operation Centers: A Qualitative Approach. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), 6(3), 1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISCRAM.2014070101

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Arias-Hernandez, Richard, and Brian Fisher. "Designing Visual Analytic Tools for Emergency Operation Centers: A Qualitative Approach," International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) 6, no.3: 1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISCRAM.2014070101

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Abstract

The Emergency Management Information System (EMIS) field has an established tradition of user-centered methodological approaches for design and evaluation research. However, visual analytics, a new field that is starting to intersect with EMIS, is barely using such approaches. Thus an opportunity has emerged to expand these user-centered approaches from EMIS towards visual analytics via the design of visual analytics tools for emergency management. In this article, the authors present a qualitative methodology for design research that takes on this opportunity. This specific methodology is characterized by using non-participant observation and interviews as methods and by being theoretically informed by the multidisciplinary framework of visual analytics. The authors also include a detailed application of the methodology to the design of visual analytic tools for Emergency Operation Centers in Vancouver, Canada as well as the corresponding results: contextual knowledge for design, informed requirements for four design projects and evaluation criteria for these designs.

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