Why an emergency alert system isn't adopted: The impact of socio-technical context

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 101-104

  Wu, Philip Fei ^a   Qu, Yan ^a   Preece, Jennifer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency response; Motivation; Short Message Service (SMS); Socio technical system; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; TEXT MESSAGING;

EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84902285719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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