Developing Malaysian community based flood warning initiatives through Activity Centered Design

Global warming and climate change, deriving from human activity, have become recognized as a major contributor to the increase occurrence of natural disaster events worldwide. In Malaysia excessive rainfall in conjunction with deforestation and changes in agricultural practices has led to excessive flooding in many parts of the country. Zulisman Maksom studied how community based flood warning would benefit the current systems. His research use Activity Theory in order to establish the most effective and appropriate tolls to use in designing communication systems for risk reduction in relation to floods in the Malaysian context. This has given researchers a better understanding of an important communication design to the future flood warning systems development.