Interacting with experts can lead to reviewing beliefs about how to adapt to sustain value creation in a future that looks different from today’s. Our study examines how envisioned adaptations to future climate change exposure can be improved by interacting with climate change experts’ view of the future. We build on the emerging Theory Based View literature to show how adaptation theories, being formed of conditional beliefs, guide the search for information which might result in belief and theory revision. We conduct a case study of a digital technology that embeds experts’ knowledge and provides climate projections up to the year 2085, studying Australian farmers’ interaction with the technology. The preliminary findings show three uses of the technology: to compare the past climate data to personal experience; to test the held beliefs about the future with the climate projections; to explore the future climate and forming new beliefs. We find that it is the latter use of the technology that expands the problem-solution space and makes decision-makers switch from routine to non-routine forms of envisioned adaptation. We contribute to the Theory Based View and climate change adaptation literatures by providing insights into how and when adaptation beliefs to future environmental changes are reviewed following the interaction with experts’ knowledge.
