Supporting unstructured activities in crisis management: A collaboration model and prototype to improve situation awareness

Sapateiro C.; Antunes, P; Zurita, G; Vogt, R; Baloian, N

Keywords: models, information, management, emergency, collaboration, technology, work, multiple, devices, crisis, awareness, scenario, activities, Application, User, Interactive, Unstructured, situation, Shared-workspace

Abstract

In this paper we explore the construction of Situation Awareness using a collection of mobile, collaborative and visual-interactive devices. These devices provide a shared workspace where multiple users may correlate information about the problematic situation at hand and organize the unstructured activities necessary to handle the situation. A PDA prototype of these mobile, collaborative and visual-interactive devices has already been developed with the purpose to evaluate the feasibility of the collaboration model. The paper describes the collaboration model and presents an application scenario in the emergency management area currently being used to evaluate the prototype. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

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Título de la Revista: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volumen: 5424
Editorial: Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
Fecha de publicación: 2009
Página de inicio: 101
Página final: 111
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70350627435&partnerID=q2rCbXpz