Transitioning to a Commercial Dashboarding System: Socio-Technical Observations and Opportunities

Abstract

Many long-established, traditional manufacturing businesses are becoming more digital and data-driven to improve their production. These companies are embracing visual analytics in these transitions through their adoption of commercial dashboarding systems. Although a number of studies have looked at the technical challenges of adopting these systems, very few have focused on the socio-technical issues that arise. In this paper, we report on the results of an interview study with 17 participants working in a range of roles at a long-established, traditional manufacturing company as they adopted Microsoft Power BI. The results highlight a number of socio-technical challenges the employees faced, including difficulties in training, using and creating dashboards, and transitioning to a modern digital company. Based on these results, we propose a number of opportunities for both companies and visualization researchers to improve these difficult transitions, as well as opportunities for rethinking how we design dashboarding systems for real-world use.

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@article{ 2023_vis_transitioning,
  author = Conny Walchshofer and Vaishali Dhanoa and Marc Streit and meyer,
  title = "Transitioning to a Commercial Dashboarding System: Socio-Technical Observations and Opportunities",
  year = 2023,
  booktitle = "IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics",

  pages = "381-391",
  doi = "10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326525",
}