Designing and Evaluating Visualization Techniques for Construction Planning
Kathleen Liston, Martin A Fischer, John Kunz · 2000
Construction project teams view project information with traditional paper-based methods that have remained largely unchanged with the advent of computers and electronic project information. Observations of project teams show that these methods fail to support critical group decision-making tasks because they do not communicate relationships between project information. There is an opportunity to design and evaluate the use of visualization techniques to visually communicate relationships between project information. This paper discusses our research efforts to prototype and evaluate two visualization techniques — highlight and overlay — that visually relate project information.