1. FUTURE POLICY MODELLING
(FUPOL)
WP5 Advanced Visualization
Overview
Kawa Nazemi
Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
kawa.nazemi@igd.fraunhofer.de
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2. Mission and Objectives of WP5
 Mission:
 Visualizing and accessing the heterogeneous processes and data in
the entire policy lifecycle design
 Objectives:
 Enhancement of the visualization framework as a fundament for
interfacing and providing modularity
 Supporting of adaptable and adaptive visualizations and user
interfaces for a human-centered visual interaction with the
complex policy processes
 Development of visualizations as key components integrated in the
framework and supporting the FUPOL Core Platform
 Providing visual support of the heterogeneous level of users’
expertise
 Developing a set of semantics visualizations for accessing and
interacting with the complex data and policy processes
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3. Mission: Support of Decision Making
Need of a policy Policy Impacts of the policy
Visualization of: Visualization of:
• Statistical data
• Semantic impacts
• Social Networks to heterogenous
aspects
• Semantic retrieved
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4. Work Package Breakdown Structure (I)
WP5: Advanced Visualization
Task 5.1 Task 5.2 Task 5.3 Task 5.4 Task 5.5
Visual User Visual Visual Policy
Policy Adaptation Simulation Collaboration Lifecycle-
Lifecycle- Support Environment Modeling
Modeling Process
Framework Visualizations
Interfacing Users‘ Simulation Social Semantics
Expertise Support Networks Visualization
Modularity
Data Interactive Interfacing to Policy Life-Cycle
Visual Cockpits
Characteristics Visualization Social Visualizations
Scripting Activities Support Environments
Geographic
Stakeholder Visualization
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5. Task 5.1: Visual Policy Lifecycle-Modeling
Framework (I)
 Design and development of an adaptable and adaptive visualization-
and interaction framework:
 Providing interfaces to the Fupol Core Platform
 Providing interfaces between visualizations and interaction
modules developed in WP5
 Providing application interfaces for interacting and (visual)
integrating of Fupol components and user interfaces
 Supporting of adaptability and adaptation for the visual
components
 Supporting heterogeneous data formats as core technology
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6. Task 5.2: User Adaptation (I)
 Design and development of concepts adapting the components to
users’ requirements
 Users’ pre-knowledge and expertise (novice to expert)
 Data characteristics and structure (Quantitative, Ordinal)
 Current activity and process support
 Composition of visualizations and user interface components as
visualization cockpits
 Recommendation of a “best-fit” user interface based on current activity
 Support of the framework functionalities (Task 5.1)
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7. Task 5.3: Visual Simulation Support
 Design and development of interactive application interfaces especially
for the integration of the Fupol simulation software
 Interfacing to simulation software
 Visual integration of the simulation software
 Support of interaction with the simulation software (UI-Mashup)
simulation support
application interface
Visualization / User Interface
Data & Process Analysis
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8. Task 5.4: Visual Collaboration Environment
(I)
 Design and Development of social data- and networks visualizations for
supporting collaboration (Web 2.0)
 Based on WP3 to
 support managing the stakeholders’ collaboration
 facilitate the analysis of stakeholder collaboration for e.g. policy
requirements elicitation
 Existing social network technologies will be investigated and integrated
to support the visualization of the networks with semantics
visualizations (multichannel social computing)
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9. Task 5.5: Policy Lifecycle-Modeling Process
Visualization (I)
 Design and development of heterogeneous visualizations for supporting
user in the Policy Lifecycle-Modeling Process:
 Decision making
 Information finding
 Policy retrieving
 Policy life-cycle understanding
 Development of three “classes” of visualizations:
 Semantics visualization
 Policy Lifecycle visualization
 Geographical Visualization (GIS)
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10. Task 5.5: Policy Lifecycle-Modeling Process
Visualization (III)
 Semantics visualizations are used to model
and visualize the semantic aspects of the
FUPOL model
 By orchestration with simulations and other
types of visual representations, the
information can be presented more effective
 In FUPOL, the visualizations are investigating:
 time-dependent and variable models
 support of decision making
 support of information finding
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11. Task 5.5: Policy Lifecycle-Modeling Process
Visualization (IV)
 Fraunhofer:
 WP-Lead
 Visualizations:
 Semantics visualizations
 Policy Lifecycle visualizations
 Social Network Visualization
 Adaptability and adaptation
 Framework development
 Active:
 Geographical visualization (GIS support)
 Interfacing to Fupol WP3
 Prato, Pegeia, Barnsley, Zagreb, PIN and Yantai:
 Requirements and Evaluation of the visualizations
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12. Visualizations Examples (II)
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13. Visualizations Examples (II)
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14. Visualizations Examples (II)
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15. WP5 Schedule
01.10.2011 Annual Project Reviews
Negotiation
WP5: Advanced Visualization
30.6.2011
design &
conceptualization
Development
Prototype V1
Development
Prototype V2
Finali-
zation
Piloting
Dissemination
M1 M12 M24 M36 M48
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16. Conclusion
 Design & Development of visualizations to support
 the analysis of a “policy-need”
 insights of the “policy-impacts”
 Visualizations and functionalities as “Modules” in a component-based
framework-architecture (SemaVis as Background)
 Direct interfacing to WP3
 Conceptual Interfacing to WP4 & WP6
 Adaptable Visualizations for bridging the gap between heterogeneous
users
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