Missing Person Interactive Story Study

29 June 2016

You will be presented with an online scenario survey where you will be given a hypothetical example about a real person that you know and asked how you would respond. You will also be asked for some information about your particular circumstances that will inform the scenarios.

To be eligible for this study, you must be over 18 and responsible for the care of a dependent person. (E.g. Parents, Guardians, Teachers, Formal and Informal Carers).

Keywords

• University of Nottingham
• Human Factors Research Group
• missing people
• Carers
• Parents
• emergency situations
• Human factors
• Human Behavior
• psychology

Ethical approval

This study has received full ethical approval from the University of Nottingham department of Engineering ethics commitee.

About the researcher

Kyle Harrington is an EPSRC funded PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham. This work is part of a larger project investigating how technology might help find people who are missing.

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