30 credits – Visualizing complex information i Sodertalje

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Background:

Embedded systems offer enormous opportunities in almost all application domains in our society. Because of their heterogeneity and complexity, such systems require the use of many software tools to support embedded systems development. These tools need to form a well-integrated and effective Development Environment (DE), in order to ensure that product data is consistent and correct across the developing organisation. A promising approach to deal with this challenge is to adopt the architecture of the internet – in particular Linked Data or Semantic Web technologies () – to achieve a scalable and sustainable integration across the different engineering tools.

However, with an increasing number of tools and information, the environment itself becomes complex and difficult to comprehend. Users need to spend a lot of time even becoming familiar with the different tools and their information.

Target:

The purpose of the project is to develop principles and methods for visualizing complex tool data. Data is represented using Semantic Web technologies. The project should build on existing prototypes and user experience research, and result in a web-based prototype application that integrates with existing visualization tools at Scania.

Assignment:

• Investigate how different tools can best visualize the data they handle
• Derive common and specific visualization principles based on these needs
• Develop a web-based prototype application that can visualize complex information according to common and tool-specific needs
• Integrate with existing visualization tools at Scania

Education:

• Working on a masters degree in UI design, software engineering, human-computer interaction, informatics, or similar.
• Experience with development of web services, as well as user interfaces: e.g. AngularJS, D3js, Javascript, CSS/SCSS
• Experience and interest in visualization and human-computer interfaces
• Knowledge about Linked Data (semantic web) technologies such as RDF, SPARQL, graph databases, etc. is desired.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills

Number of students: 1-2
Start date: ongoing/flexible
Estimated time needed: 20 weeks per student

Contact persons and supervisors:
Sofia Cassel, 08-55353536  

Enclose CV, personal letter (motivating how your profile and interests fit this project) and latest academic transcripts.

• Title: 30 credits – Visualizing complex information
• Business area: Thesis work
• Country: Sweden
• City: Sodertalje
• Last application date: 2018-09-01
• Job Id: 20180879