David Lloyd
Research Student
David Lloyd Research Student
A520
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB
at775@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 0212
fax: +44 20 7040 8584
My Research
The Research Information Team of Leicestershire County Council
(LCC) provides data upon which policy decisions are made by
the Council.
Communication with experts in geovisualization and human-computer
interaction design at City University has identified an opportunity
for using advances in visualization to explore the richness of
complex data sets, reveal patterns and so develop an effective
evidence base with which to inform policy makers. Geovisualization
techniques are of potential benefit to the County Council and both
organizations are keen to participate in research that develops
and evaluates tools that employ these techniques using human-centred
approaches :
* the Council to employ and extend techniques for using data more
effectively as the evidence base upon which policy is developed
* the University to design, implement and test visualization systems
'in the wild' with real users, real requirements and real potential benefits.
Consequently my work aims ...
* to advance research into the use of innovative human-centred
techniques for designing and evaluating software for the
visualization of multivariate geographic information.
* to apply this research to specific information needs in the
context of a requirement for evidence-based policymaking in
Leicestershire County Council