Design of an Effective Visualization for Naval Career Information Summary and Evaluation

By using visualization best practices and embedding them in information technology (IT), we believe that the Department of Defense can improve its ability to display multi-variant information. The focus of this research is to design a visual information solution, based on best practices for displaying performance data visually, to the Electronic Military Personnel Record System (EMPRS). Ultimately, our goal is to improve the overall effectiveness and objectivity of the Navy's selection board processes by providing a re-engineered, web-based, graphical solution to the visual displays currently in use by selection boards. The current Navy selection board voting process uses tabular forms displayed across five screens in a small theater-like setting. The forms are displayed very quickly allowing board members very little time to mentally assimilate the quantitative data dispersed over a wide area.Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA is the author of 'Design of an Effective Visualization for Naval Career Information Summary and Evaluation', published 2003 under ISBN 9781423500575 and ISBN 1423500571.