CIVIC-PG Track B: Bridging the Gap between Essential Emergency Resources and Services and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community in Monroe County NY: A Geospatial-Visual Approach

这个公民创新挑战（CIVIC）项目的愿景是确定和弥合纽约门罗县聋人和听力障碍（DHH）社区基本应急资源和服务的具体差距。纽约罗切斯特位于门罗县，是美国DHH人均人口最多的地方。第一阶段试点项目活动将在三个合作伙伴之间进行-（1）罗切斯特理工学院和国家聋人技术学院，（2）门罗县应急管理办公室，（3）罗切斯特聋人娱乐俱乐部。该项目代表了学术研究与DHH社区和应急管理的独特结合。项目目标包括确定DHH社区应急服务差距，创建和评估DHH应急通信工具，确定将DHH知识纳入应急管理和地理空间技术实践的教育途径，并确定DHH成为应急管理STEM工作人员和志愿者努力的一部分的途径。据最好的知识，这将是第一个国家科学基金会的研究工作，直接解决的主题，弥合差距之间的紧急服务和卫生和健康社区。结果将推广到其他社区环境与特殊需要的人口以外的门罗县NY.Issues更广泛的项目的国家影响和legacy有关的DHH和应急管理周期很少受到关注，从应急管理的研究人员和学术文献中的讨论。设计用于从规划项目扩展到第2阶段快速部署项目的项目研究问题是：R1：DHH社区与可能揭示DHH应急服务具体差距的灾害之间的空间关系是什么？R2：在应急管理周期的所有阶段，卫生和健康部社区的信息传递和沟通需求是什么？R3：在应急管理周期的所有阶段，应急管理从业人员的教育和劳动力发展需要什么样的教学实践？使用的方法包括（R1）地理信息系统（GIS）机器学习，以比较DHH人群与事件预测，决策和有针对性的消息传递的危害，（R2）3D建模，以模拟如何在DHH无法听到警告的时间敏感的紧急情况下使用标牌，以及在图形应急通信设备上与DHH社区进行以用户为中心的设计，以及（R3）事故指挥系统（ICS）的组织方法，以调查ICS操作和DHH人群之间的关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) project is a vision to identify and bridge specific gaps in essential emergency resources and services for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community in Monroe County, New York. Situated within Monroe County, Rochester New York is home to the largest per capita population of DHH people in the US. Stage 1 pilot project activities will be undertaken between three partners - (1) the Rochester Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute of the Deaf, (2) the Monroe County Office of Emergency Management, and (3) the Rochester Recreation Club for Deaf. The project represents a unique coupling of academic research with the DHH community and emergency management. Project goals include identifying DHH community emergency service gaps, creating and evaluating DHH emergency communication tools, identifying educational pathways for incorporation of knowledge about the DHH into emergency management and geospatial technology practice, and identifying pathways for the DHH to become part of the emergency management STEM workforce and volunteer efforts. To the best knowledge, this would be the first NSF research effort to directly address the topic of bridging the gap between emergency services and DHH communities. Results will be generalizable to other community contexts with special needs populations beyond Monroe County NY for broader project national impact and legacy.Issues related to the DHH and emergency management cycle have received little attention from emergency management researchers and discussion in the academic literature. Project research questions designed to scale from a planning project to a Stage 2 rapid deployment project are: R1: What are the spatial relationships between the DHH community and hazards that may reveal specific gaps in emergency services for the DHH?; R2: What are the messaging and communication needs of the DHH community during all phases of the emergency management cycle? R3: What pedagogical practice is needed for education and workforce development of emergency management practitioners on the needs of the DHH community during all phases of the emergency management cycle? Methods used include (R1) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) machine learning to compare DHH populations with hazards for event prediction, decision making, and targeted messaging, (R2) 3D modeling to simulate how signage can be used in time-sensitive emergency situations where the DHH cannot hear warnings and user-centered design with the DHH community on graphical emergency communication devices, and (R3) the organizational approach of the incident command system (ICS) to investigate the relationship between ICS operation and DHH populations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.