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Marc-André Kaufhold; Christian Reuter |
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The Impact of Social Media for Emergency Services: A Case Study with the Fire Department Frankfurt |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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Pages |
603-612 |
| Keywords |
Social media; emergency services; facilitators and obstacles; comparative case studies |
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The use of social media is not only part of everyday life but also of crises and emergencies. Many studies focus on the concrete use of social media during a specific emergency, but the prevalence of social media, data access and published research studies allows the examination in a broader and more integrated manner. This work-in-progress paper presents the results of a case study with the Fire Department Frankfurt, which is one of the biggest and most modern fire departments in Germany. The findings relate to social media technologies, organizational structure and roles, information validation, staff skills and resources, and the importance of volunteer communities. In the next step, the results will be integrated into the frame of a comparative case study with the overall aim of examining the impact of social media on how emergency services respond and react in an emergency. |
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University of Siegen, Institute for Information Systems |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Social Media Studies |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2048 |
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FREALLE Noémie; TENA-CHOLLET Florian; SAUVAGNARGUES Sophie |
| Title |
The key role of animation in the execution of crisis management exercises |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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Pages |
916-928 |
| Keywords |
Crisis; training; animation; facilitator; scenario |
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The organizers of crisis management exercises want scenario credible and pedagogical from the beginning until the end. For this reason, they call on an animation team that can use different communication channels. The aim of this article is to understand the different types of animation by analyzing the professional experience of the facilitators and the type of casting that can be done. Finally, a definition of four levels of animation is proposed. These levels are associated with different types of messages and rhythm settings. The main objective is to improve the execution of the scenario during a crisis management training. |
| Address |
Mines Alès |
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| Publisher |
Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
| Language |
English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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| Track |
Prevention and Preparation |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2076 |
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| Author |
Ivison C. Rubim; Marcos R. S. Borges |
| Title |
The Resilience and Its Dimensions |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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Issue |
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Pages |
457-463 |
| Keywords |
Complexity; Complex Systems; Emergency; Resilience; Information integration; Information system; Systems integration |
| Abstract |
Resilience has become a concept extensively used by several areas of knowledge. However, there is no method, widely recognized capable of measuring resilient behavior. Therefore, this exploratory work aims to present a set of dimensions capable of delimiting metrics in order to measure a resilient attitude. For that, we analyzed some scientific papers considered relevant by the academic community. In this work we follow an analytical flow seeking to conceptualize resilience and situate it in the context of complex systems. This analysis allowed the discovery of some characteristics regarding resilience, fundamental for the proposition of the presented dimensions. Finally, we present a conceptual map that brings together the elicited dimensions. |
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Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) |
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| Publisher |
Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
| Language |
English |
Summary Language |
English |
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2411-3387 |
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Resilience engineering and management |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2034 |
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| Author |
Erik A.M. Borglund |
| Title |
The Role of Artefacts in Creating a Common Operational Picture During Large Crises |
Type |
Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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Issue |
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Pages |
191-203 |
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Artefactual multiplity; Artefacts; Common operational picture; Temporal command setting; Police operations; Staff |
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This paper is about the work that takes place during large police operations in different command post settings, and how artefacts are used in the collaborative process in creating a common operational picture (COP). We apply “artefactual multiplicity” as our analytical lens. An interpretative research approach has been applied in form of ethnographical field studies using observation and informal interviews as data collection techniques. The artefacts that have been studied are definable as common artefacts, i.e. artefacts that are commonly available in our work environment. Based upon the five separate studies, the artefacts studied are found to be very important as collaborative tools and many also have embedded visualization functionalities. The main contribution from this research is 1) extensive knowledge about how the artefacts are used in the establishment of the COP during large police operations, where the process of establishing the COP is, to a very large extent, dependent upon the artefacts' collaborative and multiple functions; 2) the proposal and suggestion to study the whole staff and the artefacts used by the staff as one heterogeneous unit, as a record of activities. Studies of single artefacts in isolation reduce the possibility of seeing the full multiplicity of all the artefacts used within the staff, and the complexity of the intertwined web of artefactual functions. |
| Address |
Mid Sweden University |
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| Publisher |
Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
Summary Language |
English |
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2411-3387 |
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Command and control studies |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2011 |
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| Author |
Maël Arnaud; Carole Adam; Julie Dugdale |
| Title |
The role of cognitive biases in reactions to bushfires |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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85-96 |
| Keywords |
Multi-agent modelling; social simulation; cognitive biases; BDI paradigm; Victoria bushfires |
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Human behaviour is influenced by many psychological factors such as emotions, whose role is already widely recognised. Another important factor, and all the more so during disasters where time pressure and stress constrain reasoning, are cognitive biases. In this paper, we present a short overview of the literature on cognitive biases and show how some of these biases are relevant in a particular disaster, the 2009 bushfires in the South-East of Australia. We provide a preliminary formalisation of these cognitive biases in BDI (beliefs, desires, intentions) agents, with the goal of integrating such agents into agent-based models to get more realistic behaviour. We argue that taking such “irrational” behaviours into account in simulation is crucial in order to produce valid results that can be used by emergency managers to better understand the behaviour of the population in future bushfires. |
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Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LIG, F-38000 |
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| Publisher |
Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
| Language |
English |
Summary Language |
English |
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2411-3387 |
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Analytical Modeling and Simulation |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2002 |
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| Author |
Kathleen Moore |
| Title |
The Tweet Before the Storm: Assessing Risk Communicator Social Media Engagement During the Prodromal Phase – A Work in Progress |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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705-714 |
| Keywords |
Risk communication; crisis response; social media; Twitter |
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Social media during the prodromal phase of the crisis lifecycle is critically understudied in the academic literature, as is the understanding of the role of engagement in these mediums by crisis responders and managers in helping the public prepare for a crisis event. This study analyzed 2.8 million tweets captured prior to the landfall of Hurricane Sandy. Risk communicators were identified and their tweets assessed for characteristics in the strategic use of Twitter and their levels of engagement with the general public. This work in progress provides a foundation for a longitudinal studyanalyzing future crisis events and measuring the growth of expertise and engagement in social media by crisis communicators. |
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College of Integrated Sciences and Technology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA |
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| Publisher |
Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
Summary Language |
English |
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2411-3387 |
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Social Media Studies |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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no |
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2058 |
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Linda Plotnick; Murray Turoff; Starr Roxanne Hiltz; Julie Dugdale |
| Title |
Thumbs up? Attitudes of Emergency Managers to Proposed Masters Programs in EM With an IS Focus |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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1030-1042 |
| Keywords |
Emergency Management Education; Master's curricula |
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Information Systems (IS) increasingly are used in Emergency Management (EM), so it is prudent to include IS study in EM education. This paper presents the results of analyzing the responses to a survey that proposed potential courses for programs at the master's level. The survey was completed by 373 practitioners, academics and/or researchers with EM experience. All proposed courses were rated above 4 on a 7-point scale for how essential they are to the curriculum. However, there were disagreements. Qualitative analysis of volunteered comments indicate that some low ratings were due to disagreement with the content of the course as described, or with the need for an entire course to cover the topic. An unexpected finding was that a substantial number of respondents spontaneously expressed opposition to the use of IS for EM in general. The findings are discussed and a preliminary curriculum is proposed. |
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Plotnick Consulting LLC; New Jersey Institute of Technology; University of Grenoble-Alps, LIG; University of Agder |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
Summary Language |
English |
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2411-3387 |
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Future Trends |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2086 |
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| Author |
Mohammed Benali, A.R.G. |
| Title |
Towards a Crowdsourcing-based Approach to enhance Decision Making in Collaborative Crisis Management |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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554-563 |
| Keywords |
Crisis management; decision making; crowdsourcing; SBPMN |
| Abstract |
Managing crises is considered as one of the most complicated organizational and managerial task. Indeed, dealing with such situations calls for many groups from different institutions and organizations to interact and collaborate their efforts in a timely manner to reduce their effects. However, response organizations are challenged by several problems. The urgent need of a shared and mutual situational awareness, information and knowledge about the situation are distributed across time and space and owned by both organizations and people. Additionally, decisions and actions have to be achieved promptly, under stress and time pressure. The contribution outlined in this paper is suggesting a crowdsourcing-based approach for decision making in collaborative crisis management based on the literature requirements. The objective of the approach is to support situational awareness and enhance the decision making process by involving citizens in providing opinions and evaluations of potential response actions. |
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Laboratoire de Méthodes de Conception des Systèmes, Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Alger, Algérie |
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| Publisher |
Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
Summary Language |
English |
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2411-3387 |
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Social Media Studies |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2043 |
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| Author |
Hongmin Li; Doina Caragea; Cornelia Caragea |
| Title |
Towards Practical Usage of a Domain Adaptation Algorithm in the Early Hours of a Disaster |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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692-704 |
| Keywords |
Twitter; Domain adaptation; Disaster; Classification |
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Many machine learning techniques have been proposed to reduce the information overload in social media data during an emergency situation. Among such techniques, domain adaptation approaches present greater potential as compared to supervised algorithms because they don't require labeled data from the current disaster for training. However, the use of domain adaptation approaches in practice is sporadic at best. One reason is that domain adaptation algorithms have parameters that need to be tuned using labeled data from the target disaster, which is presumably not available. To address this limitation, we perform a study on one domain adaptation approach with the goal of understanding how much source data is needed to obtain good performance in a practical situation, and what parameter values of the approach give overall good performance. The results of our study provide useful insights into the practical application of domain adaptation algorithms in real crisis situations. |
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Kansas State University; University of North Texas |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Social Media Studies |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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ISCRAM @ idladmin @ |
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2057 |
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Juliana B. S. França; Angélica F. S. Dias; Frâncila Weidt Neiva; Marcos R. S. Borges |
| Title |
Towards Projected Impacts on Emergency Domains Through a Conceptual Framework |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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322-327 |
| Keywords |
Projected Impacts; Emergency; Complex decisions; Conceptual Framework; Method |
| Abstract |
In emergency domain, experts must make decisions both usual and unusual. These decisions lead to unpredictable impacts, causing the need for these experts to deal with impacts mitigation. Unexpected need of impacts mitigation consists in an overload of material resources and expert cognitive capacity. After decision making, impacts mitigation demands valuable expert efforts. To address this problem, this paper proposes a decision impact projection in early stages of emergency management, during planning stage. In this way, this paper proposes the method called General Conceptual Framework (GCF) and the Framework of Projected Impact on Emergency Domain (PIED). Through the proposed method, PIED Framework was developed, contributing for the characterization of impact projection in emergency environments. |
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Planning, Foresight and Risk analysis |
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Conference |
14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2021 |
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Melanie Eckle; Benjamin Herfort; Yingwei Yan; Chiao-Ling Kuo; Alexander Zipf |
| Title |
Towards using Volunteered Geographic Information to monitor post-disaster recovery in tourist destinations |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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Pages |
1008-1019 |
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OpenStreetMap; Flickr; Disaster; Recovery; Tourism |
| Abstract |
The aftereffects of disaster events are significant in tourist destinations where they do not only lead to destruction and casualties, but also long-lasting economic harms. The public perception causes tourists to refrain from visiting these areas and recovery of the tourist industry, a major economic sector, to become challenging. To improve this situation, current information about the tourist and infrastructure recovery is crucial for a “rebranding”- information that is however time and cost-intensive in acquisition using traditional information sources. An alternative data source that has shown great potential for information gathering in other disaster management phases, which was less considered for disaster recovery purposes, is Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Therefore, this paper introduces a VGI-based methodology to address this task. Initial analyses conducted with Flickr data indicate a potential of VGI for recovery monitoring, whereas the analysis of OpenStreetMap data shows, that this form of VGI requires further quality assurance. |
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GIScience Chair, Heidelberg University, Germany |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Response and Recovery |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2084 |
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Quentin Schoen; Sébastien Truptil; Franck Fontanili; Matthieu Lauras; Anne-Ghislaine Anquetil |
| Title |
Tracking in real time the blood products transportations to make good decisions |
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Conference Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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Iscram 2017 |
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173-180 |
| Keywords |
Blood; Physical Internet; Complex Event Processing; Process Mining |
| Abstract |
The French Blood Establishment (EFS) is the only one in France allowed dealing with the blood supply chain. The EFS centers are scattered in France and blood products are transported over hundreds of kilometers, from collection sites to hubs and from the hubs to distribution sites. The strong constraints on lifetime and storage conditions imply a traceability of transportation steps very accurate, which is necessary in case of unexpected and unwanted events. To make “good” decisions, we propose in this research work to use the Physical Internet philosophy. Thanks to sensors in containers and Complex Event Processing modules to aggregate and filter the data collected, we would be able to create a real time “field model”. In case of crisis this model would be helpful and perfectly adapted to help the crisis unit to make “good” decisions and maybe propose solutions based on the past events. |
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IMT – Mines d'Albi Carmaux – Centre Génie Industriel; Etablissement Français du Sang |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Analytical Modeling and Simulation |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2009 |
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Yan Wang; John E. Taylor |
| Title |
Tracking urban resilience to disasters: a mobility network-based approach |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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97-109 |
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Fisher information; human mobility; network analysis; Twitter; urban resilience |
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Disaster resilience is gaining increasing attention from both industry and academia, but difficulties in operationalizing the concept remain, especially in the urban context. Currently, there is scant literature on measuring both spatial and temporal aspects of resilience empirically. We propose a bio-inspired quantitative framework to track urban resilience to disasters. This framework was built upon a daily human mobility network, which was generated by geolocations from a Twitter Streaming API. System-wide metrics were computed over time (i.e. pre-, during and post-disasters). Fisher information was further adopted to detect the perturbation and dynamics in the system. Specifically, we applied the proposed approach in a flood case in the metropolis of São Paulo. The proposed approach is efficient in uncovering the dynamics in human movements and the underlying spatial structure. It adds to our understanding of the resilience process in urban disasters. |
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Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2003 |
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Sarah Bratt; Bryan Semaan; Lauren Britton; Bryan Dosono; Franco Zeno |
| Title |
Translation in Personal Crises: Opportunities for Wearables Design |
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Conference Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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266-279 |
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Transitions; personal crises; identity; identity creep; sensors; wearables; design |
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This paper reports on a qualitative study exploring personal crises that emerge during transitions. Personal crises, like crises caused by natural disasters, often lead to new behaviors and opportunities for technology appropriation and design. Through interviews with 14 military veterans re-integrating into civilian society, we find that the veterans' transitions involve several impediments related to translation work--the process through which people make sense of the conflicting rules and norms between former and present social realities. We developed guidelines for the design of new wearable devices that can aid veterans in the translation process by proposing a six-fold schema of design criteria for wearables--detection, nudging, portability/proximity, inconspicuousness, connectivity, and reflection--to empower veterans in managing personal crises, fostering resilience, and creating normalcy. Finally, we develop the concept of identity creep to explicate these translation-breakdowns. |
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Syracuse University; Medical College of Wisconsin |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Ethical, Legal and Social Issues |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2017 |
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Simon French; Nikos Argyris; Jim Q. Smith; Stephanie Haywood; Matthew C. Hort |
| Title |
Uncertainty Handling during Nuclear Accidents |
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Conference Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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15-24 |
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Deep uncertainty; displaying spatial uncertainty; nuclear emergency management; scenario-focused analysis |
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In the years following Chernobyl, many reports and projects reflected on how to improve emergency management processes in dealing with an accidental offsite release of radiation at a nuclear facility. A common observation was the need to address the inevitable uncertainties. Various suggestions were made and some of these were researched in some depth. The Fukushima Daiichi Disaster has led to further reflections. However, many of the uncertainties inherent in responding to a threatened or actual release remain unaddressed in the analyses and model runs that are conducted to support the emergency managers in their decision making. They are often left to factor in allowances for the uncertainty through informal discussion and unsupported judgement, and the full range of sources of uncertainty may not be addressed. In this paper, we summarise the issues and report on a project which has investigated the handling of uncertainty in the UK's national crisis cell. We suggest the R&D programmes needed to provide emergency managers with better guidance on uncertainty and how it may affect the consequences of taking different countermeasures. |
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University of Warwick; University of Loughborough; Public Health England; The Met Office |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Analytical Modeling and Simulation |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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1996 |
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Marc van den Homberg; Jannis Visser; Maarten van der Veen |
| Title |
Unpacking Data Preparedness from a humanitarian prioritization perspective: towards an assessment framework at subnational level |
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2017 |
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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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Iscram 2017 |
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2-13 |
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Data preparedness; humanitarian response; information requirements |
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All too often the collection as well as analysis of data for humanitarian response only starts once a disaster hits. This paper proposes a framework to assess Data Preparedness on five dimensions: Data Sets, Data Services and Tooling, Data Governance, Data Literacy, and Networked Organizations for Data. We demonstrate for one dimension, i.e. Data Sets, how it can be quantified. First step is to determine which Data Sets must be collected before a disaster strikes so that as many as possible decision-makers' information needs are covered. Subsequently, a Data Sets Preparedness Index can be calculated based on Completeness, Recency and Accuracy & Reliability. We tested the index for Malawi and The Philippines and show how it can be used to direct data collection and determine when data analysis for e.g. predicting severity becomes meaningful. The index can be modified for reporting on global policies such as the Sustainable Development Goals. |
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510.global, Netherlands Red Cross |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
Editor |
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Population and Priority Needs in a Limited Access Crisis |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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1995 |
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Zoha Sheikh; Hira Masood; Sharifullah Khan; Muhammad Imran |
| Title |
User-Assisted Information Extraction from Twitter During Emergencies |
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Conference Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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684-691 |
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social media; disaster response; query expansion; supervised learning |
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Disasters and emergencies bring uncertain situations. People involved in such situations look for quick answers to their rapid queries. Moreover, humanitarian organizations look for situational awareness information to launch relief operations. Existing studies show the usefulness of social media content during crisis situations. However, despite advances in information retrieval and text processing techniques, access to relevant information on Twitter is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to provide timely access to the relevant information on Twitter. Specifically, we employee Word2vec embeddings to expand initial users queries and based on a relevance feedback mechanism we retrieve relevant messages on Twitter in real-time. Initial experiments and user studies performed using a real world disaster dataset show the significance of the proposed approach. |
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National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan; Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU Doha, Qatar |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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Social Media Studies |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2056 |
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Elina Ramsell; Sofie Pilemalm; Tobias Andersson Granberg |
| Title |
Using Volunteers for Emergency Response in Rural Areas – Network Collaboration Factors and IT support in the Case of Enhanced Neighbors |
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Conference Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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Iscram 2017 |
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985-995 |
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Emergency response; IT suppor; volunteers; policy network collaboration |
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In public services, there is a trend to increasingly utilize collaborations with non-professional volunteers for certain tasks, one example being emergency response. In many of these collaborations, information technology (IT) is an essential tool, and inadequate IT support can have far-reaching consequences--including even the loss of lives. Since a volunteer is a different type of actor, and may have different technical requirements, compared to professionals, there is a need to explore how collaborations between professionals and volunteers can be successfully developed. This paper is based on a case study of the Enhanced Neighbor project, which uses volunteers as first responders in emergency response. The study highlights important factors to consider when involving volunteers, including how IT can foster the collaboration, and the volunteers' needs for IT support. |
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Linköping University |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Response and Recovery |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2082 |
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E. Martina Granholm |
| Title |
What about IT? Crisis Exercises for Multiple Skills |
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Conference Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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Iscram 2017 |
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341-352 |
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crisis exercise; information and communication technology; IT-practice; skills |
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Cooperation and interaction demands digital skills. In an agile context, there is no time for learning while doing, implicating that many of the skills need to be practiced beforehand. Since exercises are one way of enhancing skills needed in crisis situations, it is important to know what skills are practiced during the exercises. This review aims to understand what skills have been practiced during exercises conducted in Sweden between 2010 and 2014. Data was obtained from 15 evaluations of exercises including multiple actors. Most exercises practiced collaboration, communication, information and shared situation awareness skills. Results showed that 4 out of 15 had a specific goal in terms of technology use. Exercises with explicit technology goals are effective as a way to change opinions about the tool in question. The participants requests additional exercises specifically targeting routines and the use of technological tools. |
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Department of Information Systems and Technology, Mid Sweden University |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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Planning, Foresight and Risk analysis |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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2023 |
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Andrés Moreno; Philip Garrison; Karthik Bhat |
| Title |
WhatsApp for Monitoring and Response during Critical Events: Aggie in the Ghana 2016 Election |
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Conference Article |
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2017 |
Publication |
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
Abbreviated Journal |
Iscram 2017 |
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645-655 |
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social media analysis; election monitoring; crisis prevention; WhatsApp; Ghana; mobile instant messaging |
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Mobile Instant Messaging platforms like WhatsApp are becoming increasingly popular. They have expanded access to digital text, audio, picture, and video messaging. Integrating them into existing crisis monitoring and response platforms and workflows can help reach a wider population. This paper describes a first attempt to integrate WhatsApp into Aggie, a social media aggregating and monitoring platform. We report on the deployment of this integration during Ghana's 2016 election, along with Twitter, Facebook, and RSS. The WhatsApp messages collected by Aggie during the election improved the eectiveness of the monitoring eorts. Thanks to these messages, more incidents were found and escalated to the Electoral Commission and security forces. From interviews with people involved in monitoring and response, we found that the WhatsApp integration helped their coordination and monitoring activities. |
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United Nations University Institute for Computing and Society |
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Iscram |
Place of Publication |
Albi, France |
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Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Social Media Studies |
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14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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