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User study: Involving civilians by smart phones during emergency situations
Amro Al-Akkad
author
Zimmermann
A
author
2011
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Lisbon
English
This paper concerns a preliminary user study to determine the acceptance of a mobile application that is supposed to involve civilians during emergencies. In particular, the focus is on bystanders. Their intervention during emergencies constitutes a delicate issue, since they were traditionally considered as a rather annoying party being merely observers of incidents. However, with the ubiquity and ever-increasing capabilities of cell phones there might emerge a great potential to flip the coin and to benefit from bystanders playing from now on a contributive role. To examine this hypothesis, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 persons. The result of our study shows that people are willing to use such mobile assisting system, and thus we take it as a positive starting signal to continue our research into this direction considering the elicited user constraints.
Hardware
Bystander intervention
Cell phone
Emergency situation
Mobile applications
Mobile sensing
Semi structured interviews
User constraints
User study
Information systems
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http://idl.iscram.org/files/al-akkad/2011/260_Al-Akkad+Zimmermann2011.pdf
AmroAl-Akkad+Zimmermann2011
8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011
ISCRAM 2011
M.A. Santos
L
Sousa
editor
8th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2011
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Lisbon
conference publication
9789724922478
2411-3387
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