Print Email Facebook Twitter Warning citizens; influencing self-reliance in emergencies Title Warning citizens; influencing self-reliance in emergencies Author Sillem, S. Contributor Ale, B.J.M. (promotor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Safety Science Date 2010-06-28 Abstract An important part of the response to an emergency is making sure that people are able to take themselves and others to a place of safety. To make people aware that there is an emergency, there are three steps that have to be taken: there has to be a warning that something is going on, people have to perceive and process that warning, and finally, people have to perform the self-reliant behaviour that will get them to a safe place. Self-reliance can be increased when people are motivated to comply with instructions that are given in an emergency. This thesis is about finding out what factors influence self-reliance in an emergency and how these influencing factors can be investigated so that the total effectiveness of a warning system can be determined. The research question is: How can the way in which a new or existing warning system effectively influences citizens’ self-reliance in an emergency be investigated? A model was constructed which shows the steps of warning information processing in which self-reliance can be influenced. This model is called the contextual human information processing model, as it shows the influences on self-reliance in terms of the interactions between cognition, affective states and situational variables. The model looks at issues inside (HIP, Personal characteristics and behaviour) and outside (situational characteristics and warning) the human. The model produces a list of influencing factors that have to be investigated when determining the effectiveness of a warning system. Subject warning citizensself-reliancecell broadcastsirenwarning systemhuman information processing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:81051152-6d19-4504-b2ea-280e5c727be3 Embargo date 2010-06-28 ISBN 9789088911811 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2010 Sillem, S. Files PDF Proefschrift_20100527voor ... SILLEM.pdf 1.77 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:81051152-6d19-4504-b2ea-280e5c727be3/datastream/OBJ/view