VizStudio : a visualization tool for study in the psychology of trading

This thesis describes the design and implementation of VizStudio, a visualization tool developed to aid research into the psychology of trading. Developing VizStudio involved overcoming many challenges. A rigorous study into the psychology and emotion of trading involves capturing many sources of data, including records on trader physiology and performance, market movements, and video input to name a few. Moreover, new sources of data may be recorded, and additional data maybe derived from existing data. VizStudio is designed not only to integrate multiple sources of data into a single display, but to be easily extensible so as to accommodate the addition of new sources and types of data. In addition, VizStudio is required to process many sources and often large volumes of data. Thus, it is efficient in both computation and memory usage. Lastly, VizStudio applies principles of sound graphical user interface design to allow researchers to easily navigate through its features and menus, increasing its usability and overall value.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Author dc:creator

• Gu, John, 1980-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Andrew W. Lo and Dmitry Repin.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29658

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/29658