A timeline visualization for multi-team collaborative planning

  • Authors:
  • Ligia Batrinca;Muhammad T. Khan;Dorrit Billman;Basak Aydemir;Gregorio Convertino

  • Affiliations:
  • FBK, Trento, Italy;FBK, Trento, Italy;San Jose State University, Moffett Field, USA;University of Trento, Trento, Italy;Xerox Research Center Europe, Meylan, France

  • Venue:
  • CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Developing and corroborating plans for critical missions (e.g., space missions) is not a trivial task. Our research focuses on designing and evaluating a planning tool that supports a team of experts engaged in sharing, cross-validating, and refining existing plans. We designed a plan visualization tool to support multi-team collaborative planning for operations on the International Space Station. We built and evaluated two prototypes, a text-based tool representing the current practice and a new, dual timeline visualization tool. In this paper we present the design and the formative evaluation, which indicated the promise of the proposed design but also identified implementation issues.