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Presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held April 13 and 14, 2010, in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Needs. The workshop was structured to gather inputs and insights from social science researchers, technologists, emergency management professionals, and other experts knowledgeable about how the public responds to alerts and warnings, focusing specifically on how the public responds to mobile alerting.
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This volume summarizes a workshop of the National Research Council's Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, which was held in April 2010, in Washington D.C. The workshop gathered together input from social science researchers, technologists, emergency management professionals, and other specialists on how the public responds to alerts and warnings, especially mobile alerts. Chapters describe the Department of Homeland Security's Commercial Mobile Alert Service program and its objectives, background information on the alerting process and public response, the current use of text messages, crisis communication, public education and training, communicating with at-risk populations, and research gaps. The report does not specify findings or recommendations. No index is included. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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