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 cyber security users. The cyber security visualization research community can adopt a variety of design methods to more efficiently and effectively build tools. We demonstrate how previous cyber visualization research has omitted a discussion of effectiveness and process in the explanation of design methods. In this paper, we discuss three design methods and illustrate how each method informed 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
Aug 07, 2015
Accession Number
AD1034698

Entities

People

  • Diane P. Staheli
  • Miriah Meyer
  • Sean Mckenna

Organizations

  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coding
  • Communities
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Engineering
  • Literature
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Motivation
  • Networks
  • Prototypes
  • Situational Awareness
  • Social Sciences
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • User Interface Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber