Understanding Dynamic and Static Displays: Using Images to Reason Dynamically

Abstract

We examined expert meteorologists as they created a weather forecast while working in a naturalistic environment. We examined the type of external representation they chose to examine (a static image, a sequence of static images, or a dynamic display) and the kind of information they extracted from those representations (static or dynamic). We found that even though weather is an extremely dynamic domain, expert meteorologists examined very few animations, examining primarily static images. However, meteorologists did extract large amounts of dynamic information from these static images, suggesting that they reasoned about the weather by mentally animating the static images rather than letting the software do it for them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 08, 2005
Accession Number
ADA480695

Entities

People

  • J. G. Trafton
  • Sally Bogacz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Educational Psychology
  • Electronic Mail
  • Meteorological Charts
  • Military Research
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Sequences
  • Weather Forecasting
  • Web Browsers
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.