Citation

Carlson EJ, Barbour JB. Nat. Hazards Rev. 2023; 24(3): e04023021.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, American Society of Civil Engineers)

DOI

10.1061/NHREFO.NHENG-1721

PMID

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Abstract

Dr. Dennis Mileti devoted his career to the study of public warnings disseminated through mass media, word of mouth, and, later, mobile technologies. To date, research on mobile public warnings has focused on standardized elements of messages (e.g., the common alerting protocol). During this same period, however, a variety of private, public, and governmental organizations have adopted mobile alert technologies to disseminate a diverse variety of free-form (nonstandardized) messages. We investigated how the evidence-based guidance developed for mobile public warnings applies to this broader class of free-form mobile alerts and warnings (FMAWs). This study reports an experimental comparison of US residents' (

Keywords

Alerts; Message efficacy; Mobile; Safety efficacy; Warnings