Tangible displays for communicating environmental risk

地理空间数据经常用于调查环境风险。它们可以提供对各种环境挑战的深刻见解，但最具挑战性的任务之一是继续将这些结果传达给需要使用它们的用户和其他利益相关者。有各种各样的方法可以做到这一点，从复杂的数字系统，如地理信息系统，通过现实的物理模型和投影，到简化的硬拷贝地图和图表。本博士将探讨风险沟通的各种选择，在利益相关者和最终用户的横截面上进行测试，并确定那些在传递信息方面最有效的选择。它将有助于确定哪些工具在哪些情况下最适合哪些受众。还将探索开发结合现有工具集最佳元素的新工具的潜力。

Geospatial data are frequently used to investigate environmental risks. They can provide great insight into a wide range of environmental challenges, but one of the most challenging tasks is to go on to communicate these outcomes to the users and other stakeholders who need to use them. There are a variety of ways to do this, from complex digital systems like GIS, through realistic physical models and projections, to simplified hard copy maps and diagrams. This PhD will explore this range of options for communicating risk, testing them on a cross-section of stakeholders and end users, and identify those that are the most effective in getting the message across. It will am to identify which tools are the most appropriate in which situation and for which audience. The potential to develop new tools that combine the best elements of the existing toolset will also be explored.