TY - GEN
T1 - ResViz
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
AU - Elsden, Chris
AU - Mellor, Sebastian
AU - Olivier, Patrick
AU - Wheldon, Pete
AU - Kirk, David
AU - Comber, Rob
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all of our participants for their time and candor during interviews. We are also grateful to numerous colleagues at Newcastle University who have supported the development and design of ResViz. This research was in part supported by EPSRC grant EP/M023001/1 DERC: Digital Economy Research Centre.
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - The use of data and metrics on a professional and personal level has led to considerable discourse around the performative power and politics of 'big data' and data visualization, with academia being no exception. We have developed a university system, ResViz, which publicly visualizes the externally funded research projects of academics, and their internal collaborations. We present an interview study that engages 20 key stakeholders, academics and administrators who are part of the pilot release for the first version of this system. In doing so, we describe and problematize our design space, considering the implications of making metrics visible and their social use within a large organization. Our findings cut across the way people communicate, review and manage performance with metrics. We raise seven design issues in this space - practical considerations that expose the tensions in making metrics available for public contestation.
AB - The use of data and metrics on a professional and personal level has led to considerable discourse around the performative power and politics of 'big data' and data visualization, with academia being no exception. We have developed a university system, ResViz, which publicly visualizes the externally funded research projects of academics, and their internal collaborations. We present an interview study that engages 20 key stakeholders, academics and administrators who are part of the pilot release for the first version of this system. In doing so, we describe and problematize our design space, considering the implications of making metrics visible and their social use within a large organization. Our findings cut across the way people communicate, review and manage performance with metrics. We raise seven design issues in this space - practical considerations that expose the tensions in making metrics available for public contestation.
KW - Critical data studies
KW - Metrics
KW - Visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014751999&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2858036.2858181
DO - 10.1145/2858036.2858181
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014751999
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 5015
EP - 5027
BT - CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -