The human side of regulation: Emergency alerts

MoMM2010 - 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 180-187

  Mitchell, Helena ^a   Johnson, Jeremy ^a   LaForce, Salimah ^a  

^a Wireless RERC   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Alerting; Commercial Mobile Alert System; Emergency communications; Federal Communications Commission; Mobile devices; People with disabilities; Short Messaging Service; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ALERTING; COMMERCIAL MOBILE ALERT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS; FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE; WIRELESS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MESSAGE PASSING; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79956289399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1971519.1971551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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