Social Science Instrumentation
Streetview
In their study titled, “Using Streetview to Assess Community-Level Impacts and Recovery from a Global Public Health Emergency,” researchers based out of the University of Washington, including Drs. Nicole Errett, Youngjun Choe, Joseph Wartman, and Scott Miles, wanted to explore the impacts of public health risk mitigation measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic on community, economic, public health, social, cultural, and built capital. Since May 2020, they have used the Streetview car mount camera system to systematically capture 360 imagery data along a predetermined route within Seattle to “map” Seattle’s recovery throughout the pandemic.
RApp
The December 10-11, 2021, tornado outbreak was the deadliest December tornado event on record, with 74 reported fatalities in western Kentucky alone. This prompted critical questions about how people in the affected regions received risk information about and protected themselves from the threat of severe weather. A social science research team led by Florida State University Assistant Professor John Mathias aimed to understand household sheltering behavior and shelter access in western Kentucky following the December 10-11, 2021 tornado outbreak. In March 2022, they administered a questionnaire adapted from a NOAA tornado post-event survey using the RApp application, ultimately gathering 134 household surveys that they then used to identify participants for follow-up focus group interviews.
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