Abstract
Information visualisations, such as diagrams and charts, support analysis of large amounts of information. As product development is increasingly becoming digitalised and while an abundance of information presents challenges, there are also increasing opportunities for engineers to become even more data-savvy and to leverage the power of information visualisations. While there exist various information visualisations for decision support in product development, these representations are often being created in an ad-hoc manner and often specifically for each task. This becomes particularly challenging in systems-oriented design where multiple domains and views need integration. In this paper, we examine whether certain types of information visualisations facilitate understanding of characteristic features of systems, such as hierarchy, relationships, patterns and processes. Results from our study with data analysts suggest that information visualisations are recognised as representing the aforementioned characteristic system features, even by study participants without prior familiarity with the visualisations used, i.e. network diagram, treemap, Sankey diagram, co-occurrence matrix, and treemap.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | DS 101 |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of NordDesign 2020 |
Editors | Niels Henrik Mortensen, Claus Thorp Hansen, Michael Deininger |
Place of Publication | Glasgow, UK |
Number of pages | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Aug 2020 |
Event | NordDesign 2020 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 12 Aug 2020 → 14 Aug 2020 |
Conference
Conference | NordDesign 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Denmark |
City | Copenhagen |
Period | 12/08/20 → 14/08/20 |
Keywords
- visualisation
- design process
- product development
- product architecture
- system architecture