Date of Award
12-5-2006
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Computer Science
First Advisor
Ying Zhu - Chair
Second Advisor
Raj Sunderraman
Third Advisor
Anu Bourgeois
Abstract
Computer security visualization has gained much attention in the research community in the past few years. However, the advancement in security visualization research has been hampered by the lack of standardization in visualization design, centralized datasets, and evaluation methods. We propose a new heuristic model for evaluating the complexity of computer security visualizations. This complexity evaluation method is designed to evaluate the efficiency of performing visual search in security visualizations in terms of measuring critical memory capacity load needed to perform such tasks. Our method is based on research in cognitive psychology along with characteristics found in a majority of the security visualizations. The main goal for developing this complexity evaluation method is to guide computer security visualization design and compare different visualization designs. Finally, we compare several well known computer security visualization systems. The proposed method has the potential to be extended to other areas of information visualization.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059380
Recommended Citation
Wang, Hsiu-Chung, "Toward a Heuristic Model for Evaluating the Complexity of Computer Security Visualization Interface." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2006.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059380