Dr Cathy (Yinghui) Cao

Completed associate student
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Dr Cathy (Yinghui) Cao

Dr Cathy Cao’s PhD, which began under the Bushfire CRC and was completed in 2017 at the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, focused on the use of GIS technologies for location-based, personalised public warnings. Cathy’s research allowed residents to perceive their own risk more accurately while promoting the choice of appropriate decisions under stress. She developed a personalised public warning framework to convey location-based risk information along with household-specific action advice, with web-based software used to convey the important bushfire information. Cathy’s PhD has provided an important step forward in exploiting GIS technologies for location-based, personalised public warnings, to substantially facilitate the perception of personal related risk and decision making at the household level.

Cathy now lectures in the Department of Geography at Qingdao University in Shandong, China.

Her thesis is available here.

Student project

This project focused on exploring a method to communicate bushfire risk-related information to households during a bushfire by harnessing prevailing spatial technologies, such as GIS. Its aim was to help residents perceive their own risk more accurately and make better decisions under stress. A web-mapping tool is in prototype. This study provides an important step forward in exploiting GIS technologies for location-based, personalised public warnings, in order to substantially facilitate the perception of personal related risk and decision-making at the household level.
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