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User study: Involving civilians by smart phones during emergency situations
Amro Al-Akkad
Zimmermann, A.
M.A. Santos, L.S., E. Portela
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.
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=260
citekey:AmroAl-Akkad+Zimmermann2011
citation:Amro Al-Akkad, & Zimmermann, A. (2011). User study: Involving civilians by smart phones during emergency situations. In E. Portela L. S. M.A. Santos (Ed.), 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011. Lisbon: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM.
2011
ConferencePaper
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Hardware
Bystander intervention
Cell phone
Emergency situation
Mobile applications
Mobile sensing
Semi structured interviews
User constraints
User study
Information systems
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/al-akkad/2011/260_Al-Akkad+Zimmermann2011.pdf
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
English
2411-3387
8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011
2011
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