Love this!!!!!!! 😍

I even accidentally registered twice because I thought I must just have failed to register. It’s possible that instructions went to an old email but I also can’t figure out where my Personal page is in the IAVCEI system to change it :(.

This kind of activity is linked to more far-reaching hazards (specifically, pyroclastic flows) that can impact surrounding communities. For official info see INSIVUMEH (monitoring) and CONRED (emergency management)

Likewise! 😍

and thus feel more informed and in control, and more confident in our decisions.

We can pay attention to our everyday behavior to better understand why people respond or don’t to warning messages for hazards. 🔥🌋🌊🌪️

People are much more likely to follow recommendations if we can see the reasoning behind those recommendations. Google’s alt route options and color coded roads are good examples of this design: when shown options and conditions, we see what we have to gain, what we have to lose, and why,

With full trust, we would have followed the directions and arrived sooner. But people rarely have full trust in anything (and generally with good reason; we prob all know from experience that sometimes nav systems lead us astray, for example).

My dad, without any clear indication of *why* the nav was rerouting us based on 1) what we would gain by following it’s directions or 2) what we would lose by not following its directions and 3) why (the reasons behind the rerouting) we should change our route, did not trust the nav.

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were no red areas to indicate big traffic backups. When we drove toward the second onramp, I did see the approach to it in red, and I did see alternative routes to show me a different route would be much faster, but there was no indication of why the traffic was backed up, e.g. an accident.

So…

Strike 2: The nav on my phone didn’t show alternative routes like it normally does so there was nothing to compare its choice to to help us make an educated choice.

Strike 3: the nav on my phone said nothing about *why* it routed us the way it did. There was no info about the closed onramp. There

And we were stuck in 10 minutes of traffic at the next closest onramp.

Here’s why I think this was and how I think it applies to hazard/crisis communication.

Strike 1: the nav didn’t agree with my dad’s mental map and his experience. So that caused skepticism. (Fair—nav’s are not perfect!)

The nav wanted us to turn before the onramp. “Why is it telling me to turn? No, I’m not doing that.”

Mine was saying the same. I said maybe it knew something we didn’t. This was true. The onramp was closed, so we had to reroute.

But my dad again didn’t like the nav’s route, so he ignored it…

Oh heck yes

Lovely to see you here! 🌈 🌋 💫