Qualitative adaptation: informing design for risk-based decision-making.

Research on decision-making during risk and uncertainty facilitates risk-based decision-making, by understanding techniques that decision-makers use to arrive at informed decisions. Approaches to the research usually involve a mix of cognitive techniques for information discovery and sense-making; these were methodologically not intended to inform design. We detail our experience in applying qualitative techniques to elicit persona characteristics from risk-based decision making data