Trial Monitor: Scaffolding personalised Web dashboards for Human–Computer Interaction field trials

Abstract

We developed Trial Monitor, a software tool that scaffolds the creation of personalised Web dashboards for monitoring participants in technology-enabled field trials. The tool supports Human–Computer Interaction researchers, who frequently monitor participants’ usage patterns at a distance, drawing on data from self-report scales, sensors, or application usage logs. Trial Monitor requires researchers or developers to write minimal configuration files, and generates personalised Web dashboards, which save researchers time from implementing or adopting a different dashboard for every system they evaluate in a field trial study.

Keywords

• Field trials
• Data visualisation
• Remote monitoring
• Telemonitoring