title: Visualizing complex notions of time.
abstract: Time plays an important role in medicine. Conditions are not just evaluated at single instances in time, but traced over periods. Medications must be administered within specified temporal limits, and their effects observed with regard to time. When planning treatments, the temporal aspect becomes even more complicated. The planner has to deal with uncertainty and allowable intervals. A visual representation of the information would be helpful, but there are few visualizations of time that are powerful enough. We present a visualization that graphically represents a complex notion of time, and has also been implemented in a program that allows users to directly specify this information. The results of a small user study are reported.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria. rkosara@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kosara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miksch
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003626:Data Display; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013995:Time; D014584:User-Computer Interface