Virus

Redesign User Study with Esther Verreau

Original

Redesign

Start Model

Start Model

Critique:

Improvements:

The visualization just conveys a change of color. It is impossible to distinguish movement.

There is a way of filtering some agents or just see an agent to estimate individually the amount.
A way to see the microlevel behavoir of how disease is propagated

 

Redesign Process

Original

Overwhelming movement, the only perception that is possible is the change of overal caller

Added an option to be able to see how a single turtle behaves over time. How it becomes sick (change of color from green to read), or reproduces bifucations.

Reduced size to avoid overlaping

Option to just see the progression of healthy people

Option to just see the progression of sick people

Option to just see the progression of imune people

Option to see how the disease is spread using links

see how a single person becomes sick and spread the disease