Cognitive Engineering Research Methodology: A Proposed Study of Visualization Analysis Techniques

Abstract

The rapid development of new sensors and wide-band communications provides the capability to collect enormous amounts of data. An increasing challenge involves how to understand and interpret the data to yield knowledge about evolving situations or threats (e.g., of military situations, state of complex systems, etc.). New visualization tools and techniques are becoming available to support advanced visualization including three-dimensional, full immersion display environments and tools to support novel visualizations. Examples include network system display tools and evolving multi-sensory situation environments. Despite the emergence of such tools, there has been limited systematic test and evaluations to determine the efficacy of such tools for knowledge understanding and decision making. This paper provides an overview of this problem and argues for the need to conduct controlled experiments. A sample experiment is suggested.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA477243

Entities

People

  • Cristin M. Hall
  • David L. Hall
  • Sonya A. Mcmullen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Complex Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Databases
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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