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Natural disaster and emergency information management research in Australia

By: Language: English Publication details: Linköping : Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, 2018Description: 1 sSubject(s): Online resources: Summary: As an expert leading a number of research and industry projects on traffic control and operation, travel behaviour and mode choices, Dr. Lee currently focuses on exploring the roles of disaster and emergency information and understanding public attitude and behaviour under emergency situation. The presentation will introduce an ongoing research to improve the natural disaster and emergency information in Queensland, Australia. The nature and severity of natural hazard consequences is dependent on people’s behaviour based on their interpretations of emergency/disaster information available to the public. The presentation will provide an overview of the project and the progress to develop a human-computer-interactions testbed to examine and improve how emergency and disaster information is accessed, interpreted and responded when the information is presented in various contents, types, formats, and delivery methods and to understand and formulate the processes involved in people’s decision-makings under risk and uncertainly situations.
Item type: Reports, conferences, monographs
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As an expert leading a number of research and industry projects on traffic control and operation, travel behaviour and mode choices, Dr. Lee currently focuses on exploring the roles of disaster and emergency information and understanding public attitude and behaviour under emergency situation. The presentation will introduce an ongoing research to improve the natural disaster and emergency information in Queensland, Australia. The nature and severity of natural hazard consequences is dependent on people’s behaviour based on their interpretations of emergency/disaster information available to the public. The presentation will provide an overview of the project and the progress to develop a human-computer-interactions testbed to examine and improve how emergency and disaster information is accessed, interpreted and responded when the information is presented in various contents, types, formats, and delivery methods and to understand and formulate the processes involved in people’s decision-makings under risk and uncertainly situations.