The design of online interactive visualizations is an ongoing area of research within technical communication, with recent work focusing on visualizations in risk-based contexts. This article shares the results of a large-scale user experience study on a popular interactive sea-level rise viewer aimed at facilitating decision making for individual users in coastal communities. Using this viewer, participants performed three major tasks related to individual property, community impacts, and future projections and gave feedback on the design, use value, and functionality of the tool. The participants were assessed on their ability to complete the three major tasks. The author discusses the implications of these results on the continued design of interactive risk visualizations and argues for a vision of user agency that is more constrained within the larger ethical paradigms of environmental communication.

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约束伦理：公民、海平面上升观察者和代理的局限性

在线交互式可视化的设计是技术交流中一个正在进行的研究领域，最近的工作重点是基于风险的环境中的可视化。本文分享了对流行的交互式海平面上升查看器进行的大规模用户体验研究的结果，该查看器旨在促进沿海社区个人用户的决策。使用该查看器，参与者执行了与个人财产、社区影响和未来预测相关的三项主要任务，并就该工具的设计、使用价值和功能提供了反馈。对参与者完成三项主要任务的能力进行了评估。