Unlocking User-Centered Design Methods for Building Cyber Security Visualizations

Abstract

User-centered design can aid visualization designers to build better, more practical tools that meet the needs of cybersecurity users. The cyber security visualization research community can adopt a variety of design methods to more efficiently andeffectively build tools. We demonstrate how previous cyber visualization research has omitted a discussion of effectiveness andprocess in the explanation of design methods. In this paper, we discuss three design methods and illustrate how each methodinformed two real-world cyber security visualization projects which resulted in successful deployments to users.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 03, 2015
Accession Number
AD1034540

Entities

People

  • Diane P. Staheli
  • Miriah Meyer
  • Sean Mckenna

Organizations

  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Graphics
  • Models
  • Networks
  • New York
  • Prototypes
  • Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • User Interface Engineering
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber