IPAW
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Mitigating the devastating ramifications of major disasters requires emergency workers to respond in a maximally efficient way. Information systems can improve their efficiency by ...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Situational awareness in emergency response is critical. Knowing the status of the hazards, the rescue workers, and the building occupants, etc., can greatly help the incident comm...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2008
Springer
In this chapter we consider a cell phone network as a set of automatically deployed sensors that records movement and interaction patterns of the population. We discuss methods fo...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Emerging applications in the area of Emergency Response and Disaster Management are increasingly demanding interactive capabilities to allow for the quick understanding of a critic...
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
My dissertation work focuses on the motivation for adopting emergency response technology in community settings. The main purpose of my study is to understand various factors that...
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
: Implementing systems for emergency response poses various challenges. Information from various sources and systems needs to be integrated, processed, aggregated, and visualized i...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Being able to realistically simulate humans in emergency response activities is a key challenge for advancing the field of information technology for emergency response. Building ...
SAC
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2009
ACM
During a disaster, emergency response operations can benefit from the establishment of a wireless ad hoc network. We propose the use of autonomous robots that move inside a disas...
ISM
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Hazard detection and prevention of natural and manmade disasters at critical civil infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Recent events, such as earthquakes and terror...
DSRT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper describes a simple distributed simulation for support of emergency response exercises. The simulation, called the Immersive Synthetic Environment for Exercises (ISEE), ...