What Makes a Design Study Sustainable in Complex Domains? A Characterisation Framework for Regulated, Stakeholder-Rich Contexts
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2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Design studies are a core methodology in visualisation for solving real-world problems, but applying them in complex domains, such as clinical visual analytics, encounters well-recognised challenges. Existing frameworks provide rigour but often fall short in guiding systematic long-term, cross-disciplinary collaborations and sustainable tool adoption in high-stakes settings. This paper introduces a two-phase framework combining extended domain-characterisation methods and grounded in the established design study methodologies to frame the industry-level precondition analysis from project-specific design. Validated through AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support Systems (AI-CDSS) case studies, our approach standardises domain constraints upfront, accelerates project onboarding, and lays the groundwork for cross-project comparison for sustainable, scalable visualisation research.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing → Visualization design and evaluation methods; Software creation and management → Requirements analysis; Applied computing → Decision analysis; Health care information systems
@inproceedings{10.2312:cgvc.20251216,
booktitle = {Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC)},
editor = {Sheng, Yun and Slingsby, Aidan},
title = {{What Makes a Design Study Sustainable in Complex Domains? A Characterisation Framework for Regulated, Stakeholder-Rich Contexts}},
author = {Surodina, Svitlana and Borgo, Rita},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-293-6},
DOI = {10.2312/cgvc.20251216}
}