Exploring retention and behavioral intentions when using social robotics to communicate a weather risk

摘要

During weather risks and crises, emergency managers and practitioners are often tasked with disseminating messages to individuals or groups of people who are located in a variety of hard-to-reach areas. Social robotics may serve as a useful delivery medium for disseminating some of these messages, if a group is located in an area that is hard to reach. This exploratory study investigated the information retention and behavioral intentions after being disseminated a mock weather risk message. The results provide support for delivery platform being important to consider when disseminating a risk message, such that novel technologies may actually lead to lower retention of message content. Discussion is centered around the implications of using novel technology to communicate risk messages.