TY - GEN
T1 - A distributed spatiotemporal cognition approach to visualization in support of coordinated group activity
AU - Tomaszewski, Brian M.
AU - MacEachren, Alan M.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Technological advances in both distributed cooperative work and web-map services have the potential to support distributed and collaborative time-critical decision-making for crisis response. We address this potential through the theoretical perspective of distributed cognition and apply this perspective to development of a geocollaborationenabled web application that supports coordinated crisis management activities. An underlying goal of our overall research program is to understand how distributed cognition operates across groups working to develop both awareness of the geographic situation within which events unfold, and insights about the processes that have lead to that geographic situation over time. In this paper, we present our preliminary research on a web application that addresses these issues. Specifically, the application (key parts of which are implemented) enables online, asynchronous, map-based interaction between actors, thus supporting distributed spatial and temporal cognition, and, more specifically, situational awareness and subsequent action in the context of humanitarian disaster relief efforts.
AB - Technological advances in both distributed cooperative work and web-map services have the potential to support distributed and collaborative time-critical decision-making for crisis response. We address this potential through the theoretical perspective of distributed cognition and apply this perspective to development of a geocollaborationenabled web application that supports coordinated crisis management activities. An underlying goal of our overall research program is to understand how distributed cognition operates across groups working to develop both awareness of the geographic situation within which events unfold, and insights about the processes that have lead to that geographic situation over time. In this paper, we present our preliminary research on a web application that addresses these issues. Specifically, the application (key parts of which are implemented) enables online, asynchronous, map-based interaction between actors, thus supporting distributed spatial and temporal cognition, and, more specifically, situational awareness and subsequent action in the context of humanitarian disaster relief efforts.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905441272
SN - 9090206019
SN - 9789090206011
T3 - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
SP - 347
EP - 351
BT - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2006
Y2 - 14 May 2006 through 17 May 2006
ER -