Wireframing for interactive & web-based geographic visualization: designing the NOAA Lake Level Viewer

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 338-357

  Roth, Robert E ^a   Hart, David ^a   Mead, Rashauna ^a   Quinn, Chloë ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive management; climate change; cognitive walkthrough; prototypes; uncertainty visualization; User centered design; user experience design (UX design); water level visualization; wireframes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAKES; MAPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION; WATER LEVELS; WEBSITES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COGNITIVE WALKTHROUGH; PROTOTYPES; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION; USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN; WIREFRAMES;

USER CENTERED DESIGN;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DESIGN METHOD; GIS; INTERNET; LAKE LEVEL; NOAA SATELLITE; VISUALIZATION; WATER LEVEL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84966716327     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2016.1171166     Document Type: Article

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