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Author | Marco Romano; Teresa Onorati; Paloma Díaz; Ignacio Aedo | ||||
Title | Improving emergency response: Citizens performing actions | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2014 | Publication | ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings – 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | Abbreviated Journal | ISCRAM 2014 |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 170-174 | ||
Keywords | Mobile computing; Risk management; Advanced visualizations; Community engagement; Emergency management; Emergency response; Mobile applications; Operation center; Remote supervision; Situation awareness; Information systems | ||||
Abstract | The role of common citizens within the emergency management (EM) process is crucial in order to support efficiently the operators' activities during the response phase. Moreover, their participation is strictly related to their profile and their experience in previous events. In a previous contribution we identified the different roles that the citizens can play for an effective cooperation with the EM workers. In this paper, we introduce an emergency tool based on a mobile application designed to support the activities of the citizens acting as Agent. The Agents have specific capabilities recognized by the EM Operation Center (OC) to execute actions under the remote supervision of the EM operators. The proposed tool allows the Agents to receive information from the OC and to visualize it through an advanced visualization modality. In particular, available information is previously collected by the center from the witnesses and the affected people that have alerted about it. | ||||
Address | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain | ||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University | Place of Publication | University Park, PA | Editor | S.R. Hiltz, M.S. Pfaff, L. Plotnick, and P.C. Shih. |
Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | 2411-3387 | ISBN | 9780692211946 | Medium | |
Track | Community Engagement in Crisis Informatics Research | Expedition | Conference | 11th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | |
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | Serial | 889 | |||
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