Visualising Uncertainty for Decision Support

Abstract

Uncertainty is inherent in all real world settings and it creates ambiguities that make decision making complex and difficult. For decades, uncertainty visualisation has been a prominent topic in the research of military decision making. Even if data is free from uncertainty, errors can occur in the process of turning the data into the picture. Ignoring the fact of information uncertainty could lead to severe consequences in the military domain. This report presents an overview of the theoretical concepts and definitions of uncertainty, and the uncertainty visualisation techniques that have been investigated to date. It discusses the literature on the impact of uncertainty visualisation on decision making, and introduces recommended guidelines and systematic strategies for uncertainty visualisation. Finally, it discusses how this work can be applied to support situation awareness and decision making in the Australian Defence Forces Joint Operations Command.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1027341

Entities

People

  • Jae Chung
  • Steven Wark

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Data Visualization
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • User Interface
  • User Interface Engineering
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.