Adapting Personas for Use in Security Visualization Design

Abstract

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.

A Survey on Information Visualization for Network and Service Management

“…During this survey, we found some initiatives that address the evaluation of information visualization for network and service management [168] [22] [169]. However, all these efforts are focused on security issues.…”

“…Stoll et al [169] used the Personas Method, which consists of identifying and capturing significant details that shape the users' needs. In summary, the persona is a fictional character that simulates a real one.…”

Business impact visualization for information security and compliance events

“…Any literature used as guidance to develop the actual tools is listed in Table 3.1. [27], [29], [30], [31], [32] T: [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39] V: [38] N Analytical Hierarchical Process [40], [41], [42]…”

“…The combination of semi-structured interviewing with a conceptual mapping approach was taken, incorporating one or more documented task-analysis approaches. The implemented approach drew heavily from "Working minds: a practitioner's guide to cognitive task analysis" [32], as well as [27][29][30] [31]. Selected questions used in the semi-structured interviews were taken directly from these works.…”

“…The Iterative Field Study Methodology was designed to leverage the notion that user-centered design results in designs that are more consistent with user expectations and improves the likelihood of a usable human-computer interface by the intended user group [26], [21], [27]. This methodology was iterative in that, as the research progressed from problem definition to a resulting tangible visualization, a stable collection of usercommunity representatives was repeatedly consulted.…”