Adapting Personas for Use in Security Visualization Design

The development of security visualization applications must involve the user in the design process in order to create usable systems. However, it is all too easy to lose track of the user during the design and development process, even though upfront investment in extensive user requirements gathering has proven benefits. To address this challenge, we adapt a user-centered design method called personas that enables effective requirements capture for varying scopes of requirements-gathering efforts, and, when used properly, keeps the user involved at every step of the process from design to evaluation.

Authors and Affiliations

1. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

   J. Stoll & W. K. Edwards

2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington

   D. McColgin, M. Gregory & V. Crow

Editors and Affiliations

1. Secure Decisions Division, Applied Vision, Inc., 6 Bayview Ave., Northport, NY, 11768, USA

   John R. Goodall

2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 10996, USA

   Gregory Conti

3. Department of Computer Science, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

   Kwan-Liu Ma

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