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Visualization Of Large Time-Dependent Multidimensional Datasets Using Information Dashboards, Ankita Upadhyay

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Visual summarization is the act of displaying the most important information in a single

view or on a single screen. There are many existing powerful and useful information visualization tools and techniques to visualize large datasets, but the major challenge in using

these visualization tools efficiently are assessing what is needed to create awareness,

where awareness is dependent on the situation and context of the user and surrounding

events.

For example, when a user is driving (context) and approaching an intersection (situation)

the traffic light being red creates an awareness that the driver needs to stop, or when a fire …