Advanced financial market visualization to improve decision making and risk perception

今天的金融市场越来越自动化，数据密集度越来越高，风险也越来越敏感。 最近的事件表明，金融市场易受技术性干扰的影响，导致股本迅速和急剧损失。 在更大的范围内，金融机构无法充分认识到其在金融产品中的风险敞口以及对不断变化的经济条件的脆弱性，导致加拿大和全球经济整体疲软。 该提案提出了Cyborg Trading Systems（CTS），一家领先的加拿大金融技术公司和滑铁卢大学的Burns博士之间的合作研究和开发团队，Burns博士是复杂环境中决策可视化设计的世界专家。 我们建议采取系统的方法来理解金融风险，利用CTS开发的自动化金融分析，开发创新的可视化工具来改善财务决策。 这项研究将导致在金融工具的具体改进领先的加拿大金融机构，CTS的产品线的改进，科学的贡献，人们如何在高度不确定的风险环境中工作的理解，和认知工作分析框架的方法改进，这还没有被应用到这种域之前。 这个合作研究项目将培养12名本科生到博士生，从事金融技术，可视化设计和用户体验设计。 这项研究的贡献，合作伙伴公司，CTS，将作出有竞争力的改善，他们的产品线。 这项研究将有助于整个加拿大金融服务业的创新。

Today's financial markets are increasingly more automated, more data-intensive, and more risk sensitive. Recent events have shown the vulnerability of financial markets to technical disturbances, resulting in rapid and dramatic losses of equity. At an even larger scale, the inability of financial institutions to fully appreciate their exposure to risk in financial products and vulnerability to changing economic conditions has led to weakness in the Canadian and global economies as a whole. This proposal presents a collaborative research and development teaming between Cyborg Trading Systems (CTS), a leading Canadian financial technology company and Dr. Burns of the University of Waterloo, a world expert in the design of visualizations for decision making in complex environments. We propose to take a systematic approach to understanding financial risk, taking advantage of automated financial analytics developed at CTS, to develop innovative visualizations to improve financial decision making. This research will result in concrete improvements in financial tools for leading Canadian financial institutions, an improvement in CTS's product line, a scientific contribution to the understanding of how people work in highly uncertain risk environments, and a methodological improvement to the Cognitive Work Analysis framework, which has not been applied to this kind of domain before. This collaborative research project will train 12 students from the undergraduate level to the PhD level in financial technologies, visualization design, and user experience design. The contribution of this research to the partner company, CTS, will make a competitive improvement to their product line. This research will contribute to innovation within the Canadian financial services industry as a whole.