Potential User Groups

Residents (The public )

  1. Demographics
  2. At risk communities?
  • What kind of phones - Android vs iPhone (and/or other devices?). Do people even have smart phones?
  • Where they live - changes risk profile for floods vs blizzards vs fires
  • Focus on old people? What kind of people aren’t on Twitter?
  • What percentage of people aren’t on Twitter in Boulder? Who are these people?

Tasks

  • Fill out basic information
  • List their emergency contacts/friends
  • List what their current preparedness situation is
  • Receive suggestions about next steps
  • Update their status once they’ve taken those steps
  • View what their friends preparedness status is
  • During emergencies, post their needs/situation
  • During emergencies, check on their friends

Environments

  1. Non-emergency
  2. Emergency
    • Stressed, Busy, Seeking information
    • Potential power disruption, cell coverage or data could go out too

Competition Research

  • sf72 - thinking of making a smartphone app
  • what other apps/tools/approaches?

More coming…