Design and Development of Interactive Visual Disaster Information Dashboard

• Main Authors: HSIEH, CHING-EN, 謝青恩
• Other Authors: SU, WEN-RAY
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ez6r9m

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 105 === When disasters occur, the main basis of understanding the local situation is the disaster case reported by general public. However, it’s difficult for people to quickly get important information from big disaster-related data. In order to efficiently convey disaster information to the public, the raw data need to be converted into infographics and then clearly presented on the interface. First, this study examined and summarized the characteristics of information presentation on several existing disaster information websites. Second, this study developed an interactive visual disaster information dashboard based on human visual perception and principles of user interface design. Finally, the usability testing and the questionnaire survey were conducted to compare the difference of usability scores between different types of disaster information presentation. The results show that the disaster information dashboard gets a higher usability score than the existing disaster information website, especially attractiveness factor and satisfaction factor. It means that the dashboard is more attractive to users. They feel more satisfied when using the dashboard. Further, the dashboard gets a significantly higher score from those who do not engaged in disaster-related matters and those who never use any disaster information websites. This study provides design principles for converting data into infographics and developing an operable user interface. In order to make disaster situations easier to understand, it is suggested that these design principles could be taken as reference for developing disaster information websites in the future.