With the increase of visualization platforms targeting novices, researchers are now focusing on gathering insights regarding novice user practices. We describe the design and evaluation of Exploration Views (EV), a system that allows novice visualization users to easily build and customize Business Intelligence information dashboards. EV provides an intuitive environment for dynamically creatin...

This paper illustrates a case project to design a digital dashboard for governing the urban safety of an Italian city and proposes a methodology for the definition of a set of safety measurement indicators. Results show that the method is easy to be used to identify the most crucial areas of the city, in several domains of application that have been identified. The study can substantially suppo...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) generate a wealth of finegrained student interaction data. Although it seems likely that teachers could benefit from access to advanced analytics generated from these data, ITSs do not typically come with dashboards designed for teachers’ needs. In this project, we follow a user-centered design approach to create a dashboard for teachers using ITSs.

This paper presents the method to estimate the traffic flow on the urban roadway by using car’s on-dashboard camera image. The system described, shows something new which utilizes only road traffic photo images to get the information about urban roadway traffic flow automatically. Keywords—traffic flow estimation; on-dashboard camera; computer vision.

External Posting Date: September 6, 2011 [Fulltext]. Approved for External Publication  Cloud Sustainability Dashboard, Dynamically Assessing Sustainability of Data Centers and Clouds Cullen Bash, Tahir Cader, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Richard Kaufman, Dejan Milojicic, Amip Shah, Puneet Sharma HP Laboratories HPL-2011-148 Sustainability; Clouds; monitoring; and modeling. Quantifying and underst...

This Master’s thesis focuses on the Design, Development and Evaluation of a novel Visual Analytics Dashboard for Big Data Analytics. The presented dashboard connects social activity from Facebook with a thorough event timeline of the factory disasters in the Bangladesh garment industry. Bangladesh depicts one of the largest garment industries in the world, and their mostly female workers only r...

Future applications in the home will make use of a variety of distributed sensing devices that use detailed information about the home occupants and their environment. To address users’ privacy concerns, we argue that systems that support rich sensor applications in the home should provide users with adequate transparency and control over how sensor data is collected, processed, and shared arou...

This paper presents an analytics platform that has been developed for designers and teachers who build and use interactive e-books for learning. The analytics dashboard aims to increase awareness of the use of the e-books so that designers (and teachers in their role as designers) can make informed decisions on how to redesign and improve them taking into account both the overall learning desig...