Moving Towards Smart Visualization for Smart City Services: A Systematic Literature Review in Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake engineering requires new tools to assess risk, respond to emergencies, increase public awareness, monitor infrastructure, and assist in post-disaster rehabilitation. In this context, the significance and uses of smart visualization become a relevant topic of research and practice. This paper proposes an incipient investigation of the relevant literature, to highlight the possible interconnections of three domains: earthquake engineering, smart visualizations, and smart city services. Within the scope of this work, a systematic literature review using the Kitchenham procedure has been conducted. The comprehensiveness and generalizability of the literature review’s conclusions is influenced by the formulation of the research questions, potential publication bias, and inherent limitations of the papers that were chosen. Based on the findings, a framework to describe a data-based layered structure of smart city services has been proposed, incorporating smart visualization tools for effective communication of intricate seismic data, facilitating informed decision-making. Various stakeholders can use the suggested framework as a guide to creating smart city services that prioritize the needs of citizens while maximizing the advantages of smart visualization in earthquake engineering, including a better insight into the decision-making process.