Towards an effective user interface for data exploration, data quality assessment and data integration

摘要

Domain professionals (e.g. medical professionals) find it difficult to directly interact with Linked Data datasets in order to undertake common tasks that they typically need to do in order to explore their research hypotheses. We propose the development of a tool that integrates the common tasks involved through one user interface to support data exploration, data quality assessment and data integration. To initiate the necessary user-centered design process, we have designed an electronic storyboard to start the user requirements and user research, and evaluated this storyboard through an experiment in which four participants, identified as medical professionals in the healthcare domain, use the electronic storyboard to complete tasks regarding data exploration, data quality and data integration at the schema level. Preliminary findings indicate that the designed user interface will not be directly useful for the medical professionals but rather will be more useful for team members within the team of those medical professionals.