An Analysis of the Integration of Place Attachment into Visualizations of Hurricane Storm Surge Threats

将地点依恋整合到飓风风暴潮威胁可视化中的分析

• 批准号: 1853699
• 负责人: Olga Wilhelmi
• 金额: $ 39.96万
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1853699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Analysis; Integration; Place; Attachment; into

This project investigates ways of reducing the devastating effects that hurricane related storm surges can have on the safety and well-being of communities. Reducing and managing risks from storm surge are challenging because of the complex nature of the hazard and the inherent uncertainty in storm surge forecasting. Weather forecasters and emergency managers often use maps and animations (visualizations) to communicate storm surge risks and threats to the public. However, little is known about how these visualizations influence people's understanding and response to risk. This project will contribute to research on visualizations and how well these work for the communication of hazardous weather risks. By focusing on attachment to place within the context of coastal communities, the investigators will improve understanding of how people interact with information about coastal hazards and what role visualizations play in understanding and decision-making. The investigators will engage with practitioners and stakeholders throughout the project, from the planning stages to dissemination of the research results, ensuring project relevancy and building strong societal benefit for the needs of affected communities. This project will support educational activities through interdisciplinary training of students and faculty at a variety of institutions including from minority serving colleges and universities. The project will contribute to broader efforts to increase public scientific literacy by focusing on the role of visualizations in communicating complex scientific concepts in a relatable and usable manner. This project will contribute to fundamental theoretical and methodological advances in geography, geospatial science, cartography, as well as decision, risk and management science and their intersection with communication of hazardous weather risks. The research will bridge the gap between how spatially explicit storm surge information is being conveyed by scientists and their interpretation and use by members of the public in at-risk coastal communities. The investigators will consider the role of concepts such as space and place in data representation and hypothesize that connecting people to place through theoretically and empirically informed visualizations will enhance at-risk populations' understandings of and responses to storm surge hazard threats. The project's research questions are: How do residents of coastal communities perceive a sense of place in their everyday lives and when hazardous storm surge threatens? How can sense of place constructs be integrated into visualization of storm surge threats? How do different ways of representing space and place in storm surge visualizations interact with people's understandings of and responses to the hazards? The investigators will use a multi-method interdisciplinary approach that employs an experimental participatory cognitive mapping process, research on and development of innovative storm surge visualizations, iterative focus groups on risk perception and the degree to which attachment to place factors in to decision-making, and an online survey to test the impact of different types of visualizations. Together this suite of methods will be able to inform how the visualizations, attachment to place, and other factors influence people's understandings of and responses to storm surge hazards. The research includes stakeholder engagement in coastal areas and experts from several related government agencies. Although the project focuses on coastal Georgia and South Carolina, the methods, technology, and visualization concepts will be relevant to other coastal communities in the U.S. vulnerable to hurricane storm surge. Furthermore, the theories and empirical findings will be relevant to non-coastal communities by understanding how attachment to place within visualizations can be used to improve communication of risk hazards and decision-making.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目调查了减少与飓风相关的风暴浪潮对社区安全和福祉产生的毁灭性影响的方法。由于危害的复杂性质以及风暴潮预测的固有不确定性，降低和管理风险风险的风险是具有挑战性的。天气预报员和应急管理人员经常使用地图和动画（可视化）来传达风暴潮的风险和对公众的威胁。但是，对于这些可视化如何影响人们对风险的理解和反应知之甚少。该项目将有助于对可视化的研究以及这些项目在危险天气风险的交流方面的作用。 通过专注于在沿海社区范围内的依恋，调查人员将提高人们如何与有关沿海危害的信息进行互动以及可视化在理解和决策中起什么作用的理解。从计划阶段到分发研究结果，确保项目相关性并为受影响社区的需求建立强大的社会利益，研究人员将与整个项目的从业者和利益相关者互动。该项目将通过对各种机构的学生和教职员工进行跨学科培训来支持教育活动，包括来自少数派服务学院和大学。该项目将通过关注可视化在以相关和可用的方式传达复杂科学概念的作用来提高更广泛的努力，以提高公共科学素养。该项目将有助于地理，地理空间科学，制图以及决策，风险和管理科学以及与危险天气风险交流的相交的基本理论和方法论进步。 这项研究将弥合科学家如何传达空间明确的风暴浪潮信息与他们在高危沿海社区中的公众的解释和使用之间的差距。调查人员将考虑诸如空间和位置在数据表示中的概念的作用，并假设将人们通过理论和经验知情的可视化将其联系起来将增强高危人群对暴风雨危险威胁的理解和对风暴危险威胁的反应。 该项目的研究问题是：沿海社区的居民如何看待他们日常生活中的地位感，以及危险的风暴潮威胁何时？如何将地位构造的感觉整合到风暴潮威胁的可视化中？代表风暴潮中空间和位置的不同方式如何与人们对危害的理解和反应相互作用？研究人员将使用一种多方法跨学科的方法，该方法采用了实验性参与性认知映射过程，对创新性风暴激增可视化的研究和开发，对风险感知的迭代焦点小组以及对决策的依恋的程度以及在线调查中的依恋程度，以测试不同类型的可视化类型的影响。 这套方法将共同告知可视化，对位置的依恋以及其他因素如何影响人们对暴风雨危害的理解和反应。 该研究包括在沿海地区的利益相关者参与以及来自几个相关政府机构的专家。尽管该项目侧重于佐治亚州沿海和南卡罗来纳州，但方法，技术和可视化概念将与美国其他沿海社区有关。此外，理论和经验发现将通过了解如何使用可视化范围内的依恋来改善风险危害和决策的沟通，以改善NSF的法定任务，并认为通过使用该基金会的知识分子的知识和更广泛的影响来审查Criteria，这将与非沿海社区有关。