ecoxight: Discovery, Exploration, and Analysis of Business Ecosystems Using Interactive Visualization
ecoxight: Discovery, Exploration, and Analysis of Business Ecosystems Using Interactive Visualization
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DOI：
10.1145/3185047
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Patel, Shiv
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作者：
Basole, Rahul C.;Srinivasan, Arjun;Patel, Shiv
生态系统一词在工业、政府和学术界广泛使用，用来描述当今存在的许多社会、经济和技术系统的复杂、动态、超关联的性质。生态系统的特征是一组巨大的、动态的、异质的地理空间分布的实体，这些实体通过各种类型的关系相互联系。本研究描述了Eoxight的设计和开发，这是一个基于Web的可视化平台，提供多方、多属性、动态和地理空间生态系统数据的多个协调视图，具有新颖和丰富的交互功能，以增强决策者的生态系统智能。Eoxlight的设计是由对高管进行的广泛的多阶段实地研究得出的。Eoxight平台不仅提供了互动探索和理解生态系统的能力，还提供了丰富的视觉构建能力，帮助决策者调整他们的心理模型。我们使用针对新兴应用程序编程接口生态系统的社会管理数据，对从业者进行了多项评估研究，从而展示了我们系统的可用性、实用性和价值。我们报告了我们的发现，并总结了研究的意义。总体而言，我们的研究有助于信息系统和战略的交叉点以及快速崛起的可视化企业分析领域的设计科学研究。
The term ecosystem is used pervasively in industry, government, and academia to describe the complex, dynamic, hyperconnected nature of many social, economic, and technical systems that exist today. Ecosystems are characterized by a large, dynamic, and heterogeneous set of geospatially distributed entities that are interconnected through various types of relationships. This study describes the design and development of ecoxight, a Web-based visualization platform that provides multiple coordinated views of multipartite, multiattribute, dynamic, and geospatial ecosystem data with novel and rich interaction capabilities to augment decision makers ecosystem intelligence. The design of ecoxight was informed by an extensive multiphase field study of executives. The ecoxight platform not only provides capabilities to interactively explore and make sense of ecosystems but also provides rich visual construction capabilities to help decision makers align their mental model. We demonstrate the usability, utility, and value of our system using multiple evaluation studies with practitioners using socially curated data on the emerging application programming interface ecosystem. We report on our findings and conclude with research implications. Collectively, our study contributes to design science research at the intersection of information systems and strategy and the rapidly emerging field of visual enterprise analytics.