Virtual Trading Floor 3D Visualization for Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Management personnel in trading markets face challenges in quickly and intuitively accessing vast amounts of data related to exceptional events and system activities, requiring a system that facilitates centralized management and provides detailed information while maintaining an overview of major events.
Innovation Solution
An interactive decision support system that consolidates data streams into a three-dimensional visualization model, using real-time data integration, animation, colors, and geometric shapes to create an intuitive information-gathering environment, allowing operators to drill down for specific details and respond to events effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional data display systems are used to show trading market information, then all data can be displayed, but the information becomes difficult to access quickly and intuitively
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms traditional two-dimensional flat data displays into a three-dimensional virtual trading floor model. This dimensional transformation allows operators to navigate through spatial hierarchies (overview → detailed views) and access information at different levels of granularity simultaneously, eliminating the time loss between overview monitoring and detailed investigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the virtual trading floor into multiple navigable levels and perspectives. Operators can divide their attention across different spatial zones, each representing specific trading activities or data categories, allowing simultaneous monitoring of multiple aspects without information overload or time loss.
2Loss of information
If detailed information about specific trading activities is provided, then complete understanding is achieved, but the overall overview of exchange activity is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual trading floor implements a nested structure where detailed trading activity views are contained within the broader exchange overview. Operators can drill down into specific trading posts, securities, or transactions (inner layers) while the system automatically maintains the contextual framework of the entire exchange (outer layers), allowing simultaneous access to both detailed information and overall overview.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the display and navigation based on operator interactions. When investigating detailed aspects, the system dynamically reconfigures the virtual space to prioritize relevant information while preserving navigable paths back to the overview, making it easy to transition between detailed and summary views without losing contextual awareness.
3Reliability
If real-time monitoring of all system and market events is implemented, then complete situational awareness is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual copy of the physical trading floor environment, replicating its spatial layout, trading posts, and activity flows in a three-dimensional digital model. This virtual representation consolidates multiple data streams (market events, system activities, trading volumes) into a unified visual metaphor, reducing system complexity by providing a single integrated interface rather than multiple separate monitoring systems.
4Loss of information
If comprehensive data consolidation is implemented, then all trading and system information is available, but information processing difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual trading floor employs color-coding and visual encoding to represent different types of information, event priorities, and system states. This visual transformation converts complex numerical and textual data into easily distinguishable visual patterns, reducing the difficulty of detecting and measuring information while maintaining comprehensive data availability throughout the system.
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AI summary
An interactive decision support system for monitoring and responding to system and market events displayed within a two dimensional view of a three dimensional system model.