Presenting Information in Simulated Real-Time to Support Part-Task Weather Scenarios

Weather-related judgment and decision-making are critical in many domains. Weather assessments typically involve integrating information from multiple sources with varying content, format, and update rate. One way to study weather-related decision-making is to have participants engage in job related tasks using simulated real-time weather scenarios. This paper discusses a part-task scenario support tool that has been developed to facilitate the process of presenting weather information in simulated real-time. The paper also presents an illustrative example where the tool supported a study of weather decision-making by emergency managers.