Mobile emergency alerting made accessible

International Journal of Emergency Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-99

  Johnson, Jeremy ^a   Mitchell, Helena ^a   LaForce, Salimah ^a   Price, Ed ^a   Lucia, Frank ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; CMAS; Commercial mobile alert system; Emergency alerting; Emergency communications; Emergency management; Mobile devices; People with disabilities; Prototyping; Short messaging service; SMS

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAMARIUM; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ACCESSIBILITY; ALERT SYSTEMS; CMAS; EMERGENCY ALERTING; EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; EMERGENCY; FORECASTING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MOBILE ALERTING FRAMEWORK; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE; SIGN LANGUAGE; VIBRATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEATHER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77951441319     PISSN: 14714825     EISSN: 17415071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEM.2010.032047     Document Type: Review

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