TY - JOUR
T1 - User-driven design of decision support systems for polycentric environmental resources management
AU - Zulkafli, Zed
AU - Perez, Katya
AU - Vitolo, Claudia
AU - Buytaert, Wouter
AU - Karpouzoglou, Timothy
AU - Dewulf, Art
AU - De Bièvre, Bert
AU - Clark, Julian
AU - Hannah, David M.
AU - Shaheed, Simrita
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Open and decentralized technologies such as the Internet provide increasing opportunities to create knowledge and deliver computer-based decision support for multiple types of users across scales. However, environmental decision support systems/tools (henceforth EDSS) are often strongly science-driven and assuming single types of decision makers, and hence poorly suited for more decentralized and polycentric decision making contexts. In such contexts, EDSS need to be tailored to meet diverse user requirements to ensure that it provides useful (relevant), usable (intuitive), and exchangeable (institutionally unobstructed) information for decision support for different types of actors. To address these issues, we present a participatory framework for designing EDSS that emphasizes a more complete understanding of the decision making structures and iterative design of the user interface. We illustrate the application of the framework through a case study within the context of water-stressed upstream/downstream communities in Lima, Peru.
AB - Open and decentralized technologies such as the Internet provide increasing opportunities to create knowledge and deliver computer-based decision support for multiple types of users across scales. However, environmental decision support systems/tools (henceforth EDSS) are often strongly science-driven and assuming single types of decision makers, and hence poorly suited for more decentralized and polycentric decision making contexts. In such contexts, EDSS need to be tailored to meet diverse user requirements to ensure that it provides useful (relevant), usable (intuitive), and exchangeable (institutionally unobstructed) information for decision support for different types of actors. To address these issues, we present a participatory framework for designing EDSS that emphasizes a more complete understanding of the decision making structures and iterative design of the user interface. We illustrate the application of the framework through a case study within the context of water-stressed upstream/downstream communities in Lima, Peru.
KW - Environmental decision support systems
KW - Participatory research
KW - Polycentric management
KW - User-driven design
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.10.012
DO - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.10.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84995812834
SN - 1364-8152
VL - 88
SP - 58
EP - 73
JO - Environmental Modelling & Software
JF - Environmental Modelling & Software
ER -