title: Reprint of: environmental information for military planning.
abstract: A study was conducted to consider the implications of presenting Environmental Information (EI; information on current environmental features including weather, topography and visibility maps) for military planning to the growing audience of non-technical users; to provide guidance for ensuring usability and for development of a suitable EI interface, and to produce an EI concept interface mock-up to demonstrate initial design ideas. Knowledge was elicited from current EI users and providers regarding anticipated use of EI by non-specialists. This was combined with human factors and cognition expertise to produce guidance for data usability and development of an EI interface. A simple mock-up of an EI concept interface was developed. Recommendations for further development were made including application of the guidance derived, identification of a user test-bed and development of business processes.
authors.affiliation: QinetiQ, Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough GU14 0LX, UK. victoriaclaredoherty@gmail.com
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: Darryl
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Croft
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003626:Data Display; D003657:Decision Making; D004777:Environment; D006804:Ergonomics; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008889:Military Personnel; D020380:Needs Assessment; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Environmental; Presentation; Usability