Articles by Mathew Scotch

Matthew Scotch is a National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Medical Informatics at Yale University. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Health from Yale University. Dr. Scotch’s research interest is in public health informatics. Specifically he is interested in combining clinical data and veterinary data and using Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) for public health surveillance and decision making.

Usability Evaluation of the Spatial OLAP Visualization and Analysis Tool (SOVAT)

Abstract Increasingly sophisticated technologies, such as On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), are being leveraged for conducting community health assessments (CHA). Little is known about the usability of OLAP and GIS interfaces with respect to CHA. We conducted an iterative usability evaluation of the Spatial OLAP Visualization and Analysis Tool (SOVAT), a […] [Read More]