@article{10902/36855,
year = {2025},
month = {9},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/36855},
abstract = {This study surveyed citizens (n = 1.501) from the Czech Republic, Greece, and Spain to analyse public acceptance of new technologies for preventing terror attacks in urban areas. Our results reveal that threat perception and privacy concerns impact on pre-existing attitudes toward surveillance technologies. We found that 25 % of participants trusted the proposed technologies while 50 % saw them as effective but invasive. Results also reveal sociodemographic factors that significantly shape acceptance including age, gender, education, political views, and geographical location. Furthermore, the proposed model, which links acceptance to knowledge, perceived effectiveness, intrusiveness, and trust in institutions, was found reliable and valid.},
organization = {This work is part of SALLCITIES project that was supported by the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 883522},
publisher = {Elsevier},
publisher = {Safety Science, 2025, 189, 106888},
title = {Anticipating public acceptance of anti-terrorism technologies in urban spaces: insights from Czech Republic, Greece, and Spain},
author = {Cuesta Jiménez, Arturo and González Villa, Javier and Ortiz Romero, Gemma and Alvear Portilla, Manuel Daniel},
}