G. A. Dorn’s scientific contributions

Since the introduction of large-scale visualization systems in the energy industry over a decade ago, discussion has focused on the relative benefits, if any, of conducting typical exploration and development tasks in a large visualization environment vs. a desktop display. The only industry specific information with regard to benefits has been anecdotal in nature. Five human performance studies have been conducted over the last five years to quantify the amount of benefit achieved in a set of directional well path planning problems using largescale visualization. These studies have demonstrated that significant, quantifiable improvements in efficiency and accuracy of results are achieved using large-scale visualization environments for design engineering tasks, such as well path planning.