User Survey for the Stevens Flood Advisory System

The Stevens Flood Advisory System (http://Stevens.edu/SFAS) is an ensemble total water level forecast system run by the Stevens Institute of Technology since 2016. An anonymous survey was created and completed by 351 (23%) users out of about 1500 SFAS users who were invited to take it. Those invited are advanced users who are signed up to receive flood watch and advisory emails and may not reflect all the website’s users, nor those who use information secondhand after it is shared by other users, which is common. While all users were given some of the same questions, the survey branched to ask different questions of different user types. A total of 99 respondents responded who share the information with their community or use it for company or government operations (e.g. emergency management). Another 225 users consult SFAS for their own personal household decisions only. The remaining users were research-oriented users.

史蒂文斯洪水预警系统（http://Stevens.edu/SFAS）自2016年起由史蒂文斯理工学院运行，是一个集合型总水位预报系统。一项匿名调查由351位（占总用户数的23%）被邀请参与的用户完成，这些用户来自大约1500名被邀请参与调查的SFAS用户。受邀者均为高级用户，他们已注册接收洪水监视和咨询电子邮件，这可能无法全面反映网站所有用户，也不能反映那些在信息被其他用户共享后间接使用该信息的人群，这种情况较为常见。尽管所有用户都回答了一些相同的问题，但调查根据不同用户类型分支提出不同的问题。共有99位受访者分享了信息以供其社区使用或用于公司或政府运营（例如应急管理）。另外225位用户仅咨询SFAS以作出个人家庭决策。剩余的用户均为研究导向型用户。