IRVINE: A Design Study on Analyzing Correlation Patterns of Electrical Engines

Joscha Eirich, Jakob Bonart, Dominik Jackle, Michael Sedlmair, Ute Schmid, Kai Fischbach, Tobias Schreck, Jürgen Bernard

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Abstract

In this design study, we present IRVINE, a Visual Analytics (VA) system, which facilitates the analysis of acoustic data to detect and understand previously unknown errors in the manufacturing of electrical engines. In serial manufacturing processes, signatures from acoustic data provide valuable information on how the relationship between multiple produced engines serves to detect and understand previously unknown errors. To analyze such signatures, IRVINE leverages interactive clustering and data labeling techniques, allowing users to analyze clusters of engines with similar signatures, drill down to groups of engines, and select an engine of interest. Furthermore, IRVINE allows to assign labels to engines and clusters and annotate the cause of an error in the acoustic raw measurement of an engine. Since labels and annotations represent valuable knowledge, they are conserved in a knowledge database to be available for other stakeholders. We contribute a design study, where we developed IRVINE in four main iterations with engineers from a company in the automotive sector. To validate IRVINE, we conducted a field study with six domain experts. Our results suggest a high usability and usefulness of IRVINE as part of the improvement of a real-world manufacturing process. Specifically, with IRVINE domain experts were able to label and annotate produced electrical engines more than 30% faster.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11-21
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Volume28
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

  • engines
  • acoustics
  • labeling
  • annotations
  • task analysis
  • automotive engineering
  • data visualization
  • Design study
  • interactive clustering
  • Acoustics
  • Task analysis
  • Engines
  • Automotive engineering
  • Annotations
  • interactive labeling
  • Data visualization
  • Labeling
  • User Interfaces-Graphical user interfaces (GUI)
  • User-centered design
  • H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

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