TY - GEN
T1 - COVID-19 Kindness
T2 - 10th International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech, C and T 2021
AU - Jo, Jeongwon
AU - Knearem, Tiffany
AU - Tsai, Chun Hua
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/6/20
Y1 - 2021/6/20
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, which began in late 2019, brought unprecedented impact to healthcare, the economy, and social structure, and infrastructures experienced breakdowns in the initial phase. Demands in social and material needs surged, and they could not be met solely by unprepared infrastructures. Although local communities complemented them in previous disasters, physical distancing measures to prevent the spread of the virus undermined human connection, and local communities had to come up with novel ways to provide support. To develop insights from such adaptations of local communities, we explored civic activities for immediate disaster relief in multiple local communities across the United States and interviewed civic initiative organizers and attendees. In this paper, we articulate our findings into pattern language, a schema of reusable solutions for recurring problems. We present two patterns for community-based disaster recovery and discuss the effectiveness of codifying civic activities for disaster relief into patterns.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, which began in late 2019, brought unprecedented impact to healthcare, the economy, and social structure, and infrastructures experienced breakdowns in the initial phase. Demands in social and material needs surged, and they could not be met solely by unprepared infrastructures. Although local communities complemented them in previous disasters, physical distancing measures to prevent the spread of the virus undermined human connection, and local communities had to come up with novel ways to provide support. To develop insights from such adaptations of local communities, we explored civic activities for immediate disaster relief in multiple local communities across the United States and interviewed civic initiative organizers and attendees. In this paper, we articulate our findings into pattern language, a schema of reusable solutions for recurring problems. We present two patterns for community-based disaster recovery and discuss the effectiveness of codifying civic activities for disaster relief into patterns.
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U2 - 10.1145/3461564.3461587
DO - 10.1145/3461564.3461587
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85109421685
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 1
EP - 14
BT - C and T 2021 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
A2 - Cech, Florian
A2 - Farnham, Shelly
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 June 2021 through 25 June 2021
ER -