COMMUNICATING CLIMATE-CHANGE
; MENTAL MODELS
; VISUALIZATION
; EXPERIENCE
; USABILITY
; FEATURES
; FUTURE
; ONLINE
; MEDIA
; POWER
WOS学科分类:
Business
; Communication
WOS研究方向:
Business & Economics
; Communication
英文摘要:
The design of online interactive visualizations is an ongoing area of research within technical communication, with recent work focusing on visualizations in risk-based contexts. This article shares the results of a large-scale user experience study on a popular interactive sea-level rise viewer aimed at facilitating decision making for individual users in coastal communities. Using this viewer, participants performed three major tasks related to individual property, community impacts, and future projections and gave feedback on the design, use value, and functionality of the tool. The participants were assessed on their ability to complete the three major tasks. The author discusses the implications of these results on the continued design of interactive risk visualizations and argues for a vision of user agency that is more constrained within the larger ethical paradigms of environmental communication.
Old Dominion Univ, Tech & Profess Writing, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
Recommended Citation:
Richards, Daniel P.. An Ethic of Constraint: Citizens, Sea-Level Rise Viewers, and the Limits of Agency[J]. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION,2019-01-01,33(3):292-337