Authors:
Didem Gürdür
;
Fredrik Asplund
;
Jad El-khoury
;
Frederic Loiret
and
Martin Törngren
Affiliation:
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Keyword(s):
Tool Chain Visualization, Interoperability, Visual Analytics, Data Visualization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Abstract Data Visualization
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Flow Visualization
;
General Data Visualization
;
Information and Scientific Visualization
;
Large Data Visualization
;
Software Visualization
;
Spatial Data Visualization
;
Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
;
Visual Representation and Interaction
Abstract:
Complex-engineering projects include artefacts from several engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, software components, processes and plans. While software tools can be powerful in each individual discipline, it is difficult to build integrated tool chains. Moreover, it is challenging to evaluate and update existing tool chains. At the same time, the field of visualization is getting mature and visual analytics promises an opportunity to develop knowledge, methods, technologies and practice for exploiting and combining the strengths of human and data. We consider this as a potential to evaluate current tool chains. This position paper discusses the visualization and visual analytics practices to assess existing tool chains performance.