User Engagement Testing with a Pilot Decision Support Tool Aimed to Support Species Managers

IF 1.9 4区 地球科学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Weather Climate and Society Pub Date : 2023-03-06 DOI:10.1175/wcas-d-22-0010.1
Haven J. Cashwell, K. McNeal, K. Dello, Ryan P. Boyles, C. Davis
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Species Status Assessments (SSAs) are required to be completed for endangered species by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and focus on the resiliency, redundancy, and representation of endangered species. SSAs must include climate information since climate is a factor that will impact species in the future. To aid in including climate information, a Decision Support System (DSS) entitled Climate Analysis and Visualization for the Assessment of Species Status (CAnVAS) was developed by the State Climate Office of North Carolina (SCONC) using a co-production approach. In this study, users viewed a mockup version of the CAnVAS interface displaying a sample layout of future projections for three key climate variables (average precipitation, average maximum temperature, and occurrence of maximum temperature) at a location of interest. This assessment of the pilot version of the CAnVAS DSS was the first step in refining CAnVAS for species manager use. This research analyzed the differences in usability between two pilot versions of the CAnVAS DSS through eye-tracking and subsequent interviews with novice users. The two pilot versions of CAnVAS differed in the way data were displayed on graphs, and the color ramps used on regional maps. We found that graphically displaying temporal climate information through box and whisker plots and spatially through a sequential color ramp from white to purple was more effective than alternative displays at communicating climate information on endangered species. The results of this research will be used to further develop the CAnVAS DSS tool for future implementation.
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用户参与测试与试点决策支持工具,旨在支持物种管理
美国鱼类和野生动物管理局(USFWS)要求完成濒危物种的物种状态评估(SSA),重点关注濒危物种的复原力、冗余性和代表性。SSA必须包括气候信息,因为气候是未来影响物种的一个因素。为了帮助纳入气候信息,北卡罗来纳州气候办公室(SCONC)使用联合生产方法开发了一个题为“物种状态评估的气候分析和可视化”的决策支持系统(DSS)。在这项研究中,用户查看了CAnVAS界面的实物模型版本,该界面显示了感兴趣位置三个关键气候变量(平均降水量、平均最高温度和最高温度的出现)的未来预测样本布局。对CAnVAS DSS试点版本的评估是完善CAnVAS以供物种管理者使用的第一步。这项研究通过眼动追踪和随后对新手用户的采访,分析了两个试点版本的CAnVAS DSS在可用性方面的差异。CAnVAS的两个试点版本在数据在图表上的显示方式和区域地图上使用的颜色渐变方面有所不同。我们发现,在传达濒危物种的气候信息方面,通过盒状和须状图以及从白色到紫色的连续颜色渐变在空间上以图形方式显示时间气候信息比其他显示方式更有效。这项研究的结果将用于进一步开发CAnVAS DSS工具,以供未来实施。
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Weather Climate and Society
Weather Climate and Society METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES-
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期刊介绍: Weather, Climate, and Society (WCAS) publishes research that encompasses economics, policy analysis, political science, history, and institutional, social, and behavioral scholarship relating to weather and climate, including climate change. Contributions must include original social science research, evidence-based analysis, and relevance to the interactions of weather and climate with society.
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