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Standardised Avalanche Reports Michael Staudinger, LWZ - Salzburg. Do back country skiers understand the avalanche report in the way the producers intend that? Result: Yes and No !!! 2/3 can reproduce the danger level correctly. but:
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Standardised Avalanche Reports Michael Staudinger, LWZ - Salzburg
Do back country skiers understand the avalanche report in the way the producers intend that? Result: Yes and No !!! 2/3 can reproduce the danger level correctly. but: 2/3 are not able to quote the additional information in the avalanche reports correctly.
Standardised Layout: New concepts and icons need time that people get used to them. They only work if they are standardised across the Alps. Once reports are standardised, a large synergy potential becomes available. (example of the European danger scale)
wet + dry aval. seperately
Bavaria: history of danger level
morning afternoon 1 a Austria Tirol: time development moning – afternoon
DAV – Piktogramme (user representatives) all information pictogrammed!
Pyramid of informaton: penetration depth > > > Amount of information > > > >
user knowledge today: 2/3 1/3 danger level • Texts: • Avalanche danger • Snow cover • Weather
user knowledge tomorrow: 2/3 1/3 >> 2/3 ¼ >> 2/3 !! 3 danger degree greenhorn Headline + Symbol + subline • Texte: • Avalanche danger • 2. Snow cover • 3. Weather • 4. Tendency
Conclusion of the working group on avalanche report • (Meeting October 2006): • too little remains in the memory of the users of • the avalanche reports • Transport more than only danger degrees! • Standardised graphical concepts • Standardised small pakets of digestable informationen • (sublines with 3 lines – english??) • Standardised contents (and order of the different elements)
Conclusion: • Standardised (Glossar) graphical concepts (icons): • aspects *** • time development *** • elevation *** • regional danger levels ** (decided by regional aval. service
Graphical Solutions: am + pm am pm