Design of an adaptable dashboard for smart cities

Today there are smart cities that, through the use of information technologies, sensors, and specialized infrastructure, focus their efforts on improving the quality of life of their inhabitants. From these efforts arose the need to analyze and represent data within a system to make it useful and understandable to people, for which dashboards emerge. The objective of these systems is to provide users with information to support decision-making, so it is essential to adapt the visualization of the information provided to their needs and preferences. However, the analysis of adaptability through user interaction and its benefits is a topic still under exploration. This paper analyzes the literature on information visualization in adaptable dashboards for smart cities. Based on the elements of adaptable dashboards identified in the literature review, we propose an adaptable dashboard architecture, identify the main characteristics of the users of a smart city dashboard, and build an adaptable dashboard prototype using user-centered techniques.