Userstudiescontributingtodevelopingregionaldecision.ppt

User studies: contributing to developing regional decision support for climate services;“The timely production and delivery of useful climate data, information, and knowledge to decision makers.” National Research Council, 2001 ;NRC recommends that a regional focus is needed to address societal needs, developed through regional decision support systems. Pillars of climate services include: Regional decision support networks, Research, Observing systems, and Mechanisms to enable user-centric design and improvement. ;To be effective, regional decision support systems must not only provide data and forecasts, but also determine: what problems and questions are important and critical, and why, to be determined by consensus between users and providers of products; what information is needed to solve problems, on short and long-term time scales; what transaction costs are involved in developing and maintaining long term partnerships and interactions. ;Many “regional decision support,” networks exist, NOAA weather forecast offices,data centers, river forecast centers, Regional climate centers, State climatologist offices, Agricultural extension services Some private companies These networks provide data and forecasts, but in order to meet the NRC user-centric goals of climate services, these organizations would also: adapt products to meet specific user needs, support major user groups, encourage dialogue with users, and develop a regional focus to address societal needs. These networks generally are not set up to do effective user-studies ;Effective user-centric design and implementation;Effective user-centric design and implementation;Designing effective user studies;Differences in perspective;Innovation-Decision process: conceptual steps in deciding whether to adopt an innovation;Definitions of “use”;User Study Approach;User group is the reservoir managers in the Colorado headwaters and Gunnison basins who operate reservoirs originally built to provide