This design study presents an analysis and abstraction of temporal and spatial data, and workflows in the domain of hydrogeology and the design and development of an interactive visualization prototype. Developed in close collaboration with a group of hydrogeological researchers, the interface supports them in data exploration, selection of data for their numerical model calibration, and communication of findings to their industry partners. We highlight both pitfalls and learnings of the iterative design and validation process and explore the role of rapid prototyping. Some of the main lessons were that the ability to see their own data changed the engagement of skeptical users dramatically and that interactive rapid prototyping tools are thus powerful to unlock the advantage of visual analysis for novice users. Further, we observed that the process itself helped the domain scientists understand the potential and challenges of their data more than the final interface prototype.
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January 2025
College of Chemistry, Jilin Province Research Center for Engineering and Technology of Spectral Analytical Instruments, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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Texas A&M University Department of Biomedical Engineering, College Station, TX 77840, US.
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Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
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January 2025
Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. Electronic address:
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