About the Center

The Center for Alarm Fatigue was established in 2031 as a research institute dedicated to the study of alarm desensitization across domestic, institutional, digital, and cultural contexts.

We are a small organization. Our staff consists of four researchers, one administrator, and one facilities coordinator who is responsible for, among other things, the building's alarm systems. The facilities coordinator has requested that we not publish their email address, as they receive a high volume of inquiries about the notification banner on this website. We have honored this request. The inquiries have been filed.

Our email response time is longer than we would prefer. Our publication schedule is aspirational. The person responsible for updating the Alarm Index has alarm fatigue about the update reminder. We consider this professionally consistent with our research subject.

We are funded through institutional grants, symposium registration fees, and a modest endowment from a donor who, in their words, "has been ignoring their smoke detector for three years and thought it was time to do something constructive about it." We did not ask the donor to change their smoke detector battery. That is outside our scope. We study the phenomenon. We do not intervene in it.