A tool for visualization of risk information: the Risk Box

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Visualization is an effective way to represent data that mainly aims to make the data easier to be understood, analyzed, and processed by the users. In literature, there exist many studies focusing on the necessity and effectiveness of visualization in decision-making processes. Risk, on the other hand, is an important topic that needs to be considered for decision-makers in the project to decide on the further pathways to follow and need to be visualized in such a way to aid the decision-makers in these procedures. Hence, this thesis aims to understand the performance of the existing risk visualization techniques and form new ways to visualize the risk analysis outputs and risk information. In this manner, an initial needs assessment study has been conducted using the traditional outputs of Monte Carlo Simulation and found out that the visuals are not easy to understand by decision-makers. Hence, a “Risk Box” idea has been proposed and tested with decision-makers via semi-structured interviews using a case project. The proposed concept of Risk Box aimed to be designed as in the shape of a box having different faces while acquiring different and complementary risk information. At the end of the study, it has been found out that Risk Box is a useful and promising tool to be used in practice. Therefore, this study has shown that construction professionals can use Risk Box during risk assessment for a more effective communication of probabilistic information.

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Risk management, Risk communication, Risk Information Visualization

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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E. Karakoçak, “A tool for visualization of risk information: the Risk Box,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2021.