Supporting Medical Personnel at Analyzing Chronic Lung Diseases with Interactive Visualizations

Abstract

We present a visualization system for medical practitioners to analyze lung function data collected at different points in time. In particular, our approach aims to solve the problems practitioners encounter in their daily work life when they have to consult different text-based documents to get access to the same data we provide in a single interface. To test the suitability of our system, we conducted a formative study where participants used our system to answer both simple and complex questions previously designed in collaboration with a domain expert. Our results indicate that our target users can easily work with our system and use it to answer both types of questions.