![]() Also determining the user acceptance of the technology was not determined to gain insights as to the acceptability of the application in the country. To date, no study has been done to explore the use of mobile-based solutions for emergency and disaster response in the Philippines. However, the use of mobile-based solutions for emergency and disaster response systems is still underrepresented in developing countries, such as from the Philippines. Thus, mobile-based solutions offer substantial benefits to reduce the impact of emergency and disasters on human life and infrastructure. Lastly, use of crowdsourcing features to estimate affected citizens, allocate resources needed to effectively respond to the victims, through recorded images and videos (Ludwig et al., 2017 Horita et al., 2013). ![]() Third, assists emergency responders to locate missing persons through the stored user information in mobile phones and servers (Annadata et al., 2016). Second, detect potential risks such as on explosive materials, fire, earthquake, and tsunami as well as other location-based or surrounding events (Alcaidinho et al., 2017 Kong et al., 2016 Minson et al., 2015). First, mobile-based emergency offers a way to reducing response time through geographical position systems (GPS), real-time disaster information and early warning features (Maryam et al., 2016). ![]() The use of mobile-based solutions for emergency and disaster response offers benefits to various stakeholders. For instance, mobile application with capabilities on supporting the needs of first responders in the field and citizens with smartphones for public safety as well as implement mission-critical mobile applications that coordinates with law enforcement, fire department, and emergency response authority during these situations (Nyaung and Yamaguchi, 2018 Han et al., 2016). To date, there are emergency management technology solutions to respond to victims, connect public and private agencies in real-time, and reduce potential impacts of disasters to human life and physical infrastructure, and the environment (Lei et al., 2018 Foresti et al., 2015). However, there is a need to reduce the impacts of disasters and emergencies in a sustainable manner in which information technology solutions is used as one of the approaches to mitigate these situations (Mal et al., 2018 Alexander, 2017). Thus, this work offers research and practical implications for developing countries, and other economies.Įmergencies and disasters remain a challenging situation in several countries worldwide due to recurring meteorological, physical infrastructure, and human-related factors, among others. On the other hand, age does not show significant influence on facilitating condition, social influence, effort expectancy and facilitating condition to the behavioral intention of use. Moreover, gender showed a significant influence on the facilitating condition to behavioral intention. The correlation results of effort expectancy that influences behavioral intention shows significantly among other indicators that correlate to behavioral intention. Most of the respondents are learning the application for the first time. However, the majority of the respondents are willing to use the emergency and disaster response application and are motivated to share the capabilities of the application with their families and friends. Most of the respondents do not know about the emergency and disaster response application and its capability. Results show that the majority of the respondents were female who belong to age 18-23 years old. This study measures the acceptance level of the recently launched emergency and disaster response applications in a smartphone for citizens, through a survey conducted based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Used of Technology model. However, emergency and disaster response applications in a smartphone in the Philippines are underrepresented in literature. AbstractEmergency and disaster situations continue to rise in all parts of the world, especially in the most risk-prone countries such as the Philippines.
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