Designing Interactive Graphics for Validating and Interpreting Storm Track Model Outputs
Slingsby, A., Strachan, J., Dykes, J. , Wood, J. & Vidale, P. (2011). Designing Interactive Graphics for Validating and Interpreting Storm Track Model Outputs. Paper presented at the GeoViz workshop, Mar 2011, Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract
We report on some initial work in which we designed interactive graphics to help climate scientists identify and extract good examples of simulated storm-tracks from a large dataset to help disseminate information to various audiences. A side-effect of this work was that the exploratory potential offered by the interactive graphics helped our climate scientist coauthors validate and interpret their data in a way that was not previously possible for them. We are extending this work to provide support for a wider range of validation and interpretative tasks, with a focus on answering questions of relevance to the insurance industry. We describe our collaborative approach, that draws on ideas from ’patchwork prototyping’ [2, 5] in which a rapid iterative process of design, implementation and testing, is used to help provide the functionality to support a set of ‘user stories’.
Publication Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science |
Departments: | School of Communication & Creativity > Media, Culture & Creative Industries > Library & Information Science School of Science & Technology > Computer Science > giCentre |
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