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<\/a>Jeannette Sutton, senior research associate, Trauma, Health and Hazards Center,\u00a0joins a team of researchers from the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism that received a $952,004 contract to determine the most effective way to communicate imminent threats to the public via text messaging on mobile devices.<\/p>\nThe two-year project, titled \u201cComprehensive Testing of Imminent Threat Public Messages for Mobile Devices,\u201d will design and test prototype messages intended as emergency alerts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis research will test the effect of messaging on people\u2019s decisions to take action under imminent threat,\u201d Sutton said.<\/p>\n
Joining Sutton on the team are researchers from five universities, including Hamilton Bean, CU Denver, Dennis Mileti, CU Boulder, Brooke Fisher Liu, University of Maryland, Michele Wood, California State University, and Kathleen Smarick, START. The team will conduct interviews, experiments and a survey starting in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope that our findings will help save lives in disaster by increasing the likelihood that people will take actions to make themselves and their loved ones safe,\u201d Sutton said.<\/p>\n
For more information about this project, visit: http:\/\/www.start.umd.edu\/start\/announcements\/announcement.asp?id=394<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"