Visual strategies for enhancing user perception of task relationships in emergency operations centers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7709, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dudzic, Stephanie ^a   Godwin, Alex ^a   Kilgore, Ryan ^a  

^a CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive workload; critical relationships; Emergency Operations Center; Master Scenario Event List; temporal visualization; time sensitive decision making; timeline

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE WORKLOADS; CRITICAL RELATIONSHIPS; EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTERS; MASTER SCENARIO EVENT LIST; TEMPORAL VISUALIZATION; TIME-SENSITIVE DECISION-MAKING; TIMELINE;

RATING; SECURITY OF DATA; SPACE SHUTTLES; VISUALIZATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79953680192     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.850061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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