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Furthering development of a unified emergency scale using Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment: A progress report
Linda Plotnick
author
Elizabeth Avery Gomez
author
Connie White
author
Murray Turoff
author
2007
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Delft
English
In disasters, local civilians on or near the scene, are often first to respond and give aid. Therefore, the public needs to be well-informed with accurate, time critical information. However, a primary information source is event-specific scales that are inconsistent in their categorization and measurement, adding confusion to public responsiveness. These scales are not extendable to new emergencies in a changing world. We argue for development of a unified emergency scale to facilitate communication and understanding. This scale will inform local communities with regional community-specific information, and will be extendable for further use by professional responders. Research in progress elicited 15 dimensions of an emergency using a Delphi-like process and then ranked the dimensions by importance utilizing Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment. Contributions of this paper are to highlight the need for an unequivocal, unified scale and further its development.
Risk management
Scheduling
Emergency management
Event-specific
Information sources
Local community
Paired comparison
Progress report
Public safety
Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment
Disasters
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http://idl.iscram.org/files/plotnick/2007/845_Plotnick_etal2007.pdf
LindaPlotnick_etal2007
Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers
ISCRAM 2007
B. Van de Walle
P
Burghardt
editor
4th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2007
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Delft
conference publication
411
418
9789054874171; 9789090218717
2411-3387
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