Designing a Collaborative Visual Analytics Tool for Social and Technological Change Prediction

Author

Wong, Pak Chung ; Leung, L. Ruby ; Lu, Ning ; Scott, Michael J. ; Mackey, Patrick ; Foote, Harlan ; Correia, James, Jr. ; Taylor, Z. Todd ; Xu, Jianhua ; Unwin, Stephen D. ; Sanfilippo, Antonio

Author_Institution

Pacific Northwest Nat. Lab., Richland, WA, USA

Volume

29

Issue

5

fYear

2009

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

68

Abstract

This paper discussed about GreenOracle which an interdisciplinary team designed and developed. GreenOracle is a collaborative visual analytics tool for predicting global climate change´s impact on US power grids and its implications for society and national security. These future scenarios provide critical assessments and information to help policymakers and stakeholders formulate a coherent and unified strategy toward shaping a safe and secure society.

Keywords

groupware; socio-economic effects; GreenOracle; US power grids; collaborative visual analytics tool; national security; social and technological change prediction; Collaborative tools; International collaboration; National security; Power grids; Social implications of technology; Visual analytics; collaboration; computer graphics; predictive analytics; social modeling; technological modeling; visual analytics; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2009.92

Filename

5230469