Genogram Visualization Using Social Network Approach for Medical Family Tree

Genogram is a graphical representation of a family tree. It can also be used to track and provide some information about family medical history and relationships, which allow user to understand the general and complex information of their family for generation. However, some limitations do exist while using genogram, namely scalability problems while visualizing the wealth and complex information once the family tree gets bigger. In this paper, we present an approach to visualize these type of data using social network visualization approach. Results shows that the prototype tool, which employ the social action approach, does improve user understanding of medical family tree in terms of usefulness and on ease of use. It is hope that this approach can help user especially healthcare professionals to understand medical family tree data.