TY - GEN
T1 - Coordination of emergency response operations via the event-based awareness mechanism
AU - Yu, Bo
AU - Cai, Guoray
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Emergency response involves collaboration among search and rescue workers, medical staff, transportation coordinators, and others to save human lives and minimize damages. While carrying out local activities, members of the teams must also attend to new events happening elsewhere that may affect their work, and be prepared to adjust their activities accordingly. This paper describes a computer supported coordination system, DACE (Dependency-based Awareness and Coordination Environment), which offers a scalable solution to coordination in emergency response. The system serves as a cognitive aid to human actors in both maintaining a group mental model of the overall collaborative activities and their dependencies, and determining the effects of events as they propagate through the web of dependencies. We demonstrate the principles and utility of the DACE system through a hypothetical scenario of search and rescue exercise. This work contributes to the goal of scaling up awareness-based coordination in emergency response.
AB - Emergency response involves collaboration among search and rescue workers, medical staff, transportation coordinators, and others to save human lives and minimize damages. While carrying out local activities, members of the teams must also attend to new events happening elsewhere that may affect their work, and be prepared to adjust their activities accordingly. This paper describes a computer supported coordination system, DACE (Dependency-based Awareness and Coordination Environment), which offers a scalable solution to coordination in emergency response. The system serves as a cognitive aid to human actors in both maintaining a group mental model of the overall collaborative activities and their dependencies, and determining the effects of events as they propagate through the web of dependencies. We demonstrate the principles and utility of the DACE system through a hypothetical scenario of search and rescue exercise. This work contributes to the goal of scaling up awareness-based coordination in emergency response.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905581657
SN - 9780864913326
T3 - ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
BT - ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - Simon Fraser University
T2 - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2012
Y2 - 22 April 2012 through 25 April 2012
ER -