Adaptive User-Aware Dashboard Design

The task of the VAST 2013 Mini-Challenge 2 (MC2) was the design of a system targeting the surveillance and the visualization of the current state of the corporate network of Big Enterprises. According to the task given, we focus on displaying three main measures: health, security, and performance of the network. In our approach, we propose a novel visual design, and a new interaction concept and design. In order to create a fresh perspective on situational awareness, we do not only focus on the scalability of the visual design, but also propose a new display that consist of three important key concepts: User-Aware Adaptiveness (UAA), Shared Collaborative Queues (SCQ), and a combination of different novel widget charts. Our paper is structured as follows: In section 2, we first provide an overview of the basic concepts, the User-Aware Adaptiveness as well as the Shared Collaborative Queues. The second part focuses on the widgets charts, describing each of them separately. We conclude with a short summary in section 3.