ISCRAM2007 -- THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR CRISIS RESPONSE AND MANAGEMENT -- ISBN 978 90 5487 417 1 -- 2007 VUBPRESS Brussels University Press -- Table of Contents -- Local Organizing Chair -- Program Committee -- BIOGRAPHY Mike MELESHKIN -- Humanitarian-FOSS: Case Study On Disaster Management -- -- WebVista A humanitarian Visual Analytics Tool -- National System for Geospatial Data Collection and Models for Crisis Management in Israel -- Tsunami Early Warning Decision Support -- Cooperation for Enhanced Security - SHIFT and SIRS -- Sahana Victim Registries: Effectively Track Disaster Victims -- -- Towards a GIS Data Model for Improving the Emergency Response in the Least Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities -- Integrating technology in crisis response using an information manager: first lessons learned from field exercises in the Port of Rotterdam -- The Borsele Files: The Challenge of Acquiring Usable Data under Chaotic Circumstances -- Prototyping Collaborative Geospatial Emergency Planning -- A Ghost in the System: Integrating Validity and Methodology Considerations from the Behavioral Sciences into Disaster Research -- Performance Metrics for Disaster Monitoring Systems -- Mining Patterns for Web-based Emergency Management Systems -- Who's Really on First? A Domain-Level User, Task and Context Analysis for Response Technology -- Susanne Jul -- Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction in Crisis Management Environments -- Effective Communication of Warnings and Critical Information: Application of Accessible Design Methods to Auditory Warnings -- GeoVisual Analytics and Crisis Management -- Intelligent Use of Geospatial Information for Emergency Operation Management -- The Effect of Geographical Information Systems on a Collaborative Command and Control Task.

GIS Integration in the Sahana Disaster Management System -- Assessment of Industrial Asset Values at Risk -- Automatic Generation of Sensor Queries in a WSN for Environmental Monitoring -- A Survey of Schema Standards and Portals for Emergency Management and Collaboration -- Emergency Management:from User Requirements to a Flexible P2P Architecture -- Simulation as Decision Support in Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response -- Decision Support for the Members of an Emergency Operation Centre after an Earthquake -- A Human-Centered Conceptual Model of Disasters Affecting Critical Infrastructures -- The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response -- Agent-Based Disaster Simulation Evaluation and its Probability Model Interpretation -- Designing for material practices of coordinating emergency teamwork -- Multi-Agent System Support for Scheduling Aircraft De-icing -- The use of Active Appearance Model for facial expression recognition in crisis environments -- ABSTRACT -- KEYWORDS -- PROBLEM DEFINITION AND REQUIREMENTS -- NONFUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE SAHANA FRAMEWORK AND IT'S VICTIM REGISTRY IMPLEMENTATIONS -- -- Disaster Victim Registry Home Page -- Data Capturing Procedure -- Customization of the Check List Through the Administration Menu -- Adding An Individual Victim -- Missing Person Registry Home Page -- Reporting A Missing Person -- Reporting A Found Person -- CURRENT DEPLOYMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- FLOOD DETECTION METHODOLOGY -- HUMANITARIAN ALERT AND INFORMATION -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- The Trinity Sahana Project -- EXTENDING H-FOSS TO HIGHER EDUCATION -- A Portable and Sustainable Model for H-FOSS Development -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION.

STUDY BACKGROUND -- Local Community Organizations and Responder Roles -- Supporting Theories -- WHY SIMULATE SMS TEXT-MESSAGING -- SUMMARY AND CURRENT RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- HAZARD GENERATED NEEDS -- MODELING AND DECISION SUPPORT -- Rapid Assessments -- IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS -- THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE PROJECT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- RELATED WORK -- BACKGROUND: CRISIS DECISION-MAKING AT THE PORT OF ROTTERDAM -- Research setting -- The Information problem within the research setting -- Current information flows and technology used -- Introduced technology -- RESEARCH APPROACH -- Data collection -- Data analysis -- FINDINGS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUND -- THE MAJOR INCIDENTS FUTURE LABORATORY -- The prototypes and the set-up -- Exploring socio-technical futures of major incide -- Scene 1: Multiple teams arriving -- Scene 2: Forming a first picture of the victims -- Scene 3: Patients in dangerous situations -- Scene 4: Collecting information for an overview -- Scene 5: Cordoning off the area -- Scene 6: Freeing the victim trapped in the car -- Scene 7: Patients' conditions change -- Scene 8: Technical failure? -- Scene 9: The ambulance stretcher -- Scene 10: Emergency room -- Scene 11: In AMC at the hospital -- DISCUSSION - SUMMARY OF LESSONS LEARNT -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY WARNING END USER REQUIREMENTS -- MATERIAL AND METHOD -- From Incidental to Planned Data Collection -- Method: Systematic Qualitative Content Analysis -- RESULTS -- Situation and Resources Before the Incident -- First Information -- First Reactions - Faulty Situational Awareness.

Evaluating Additional, Conflicting Information -- Evacuation Preparations until Time "Vanished" -- Evacuation: Wayfinding in Foreign Darkness -- After Return Maybe Official Notification -- DISCUSSION -- Results that confirm earlier findings -- Results that conflict with or add to earlier findings and requirements -- New findings -- CONCLUSIONS -- Implications for Early Warning in Areas with Many Travelers -- Implications for Disaster Preparedness in Areas with Many Travelers -- Implications for Global News Media -- Implications for Future Research -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY -- Overall Structure -- Measuring quantitatively -- Measuring qualitatively -- RESULTS -- Exercise: Overall impression -- Data Analysis: Quantitative -- Data Analysis: Qualitative Analysis -- -- DISCUSSION/LESSONS LEARNED -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- Context -- The studied parameters -- INJURY WORSENING MODEL -- The classical Verhulst model -- Including the number of dead people in the model -- Results -- Steady state -- RESCUE MODELING -- Adding the rescuers' effect in the model -- Results -- RISK ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- AKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL REFERENCE TASK -- Task Design -- PAPER PROTOTYPE -- STUDY PROCEDURE -- Study Design -- Participants -- Experiment Procedure -- FOCUS GROUP PROCEDURE -- RESULTS -- Use of Experimental Reference Task -- Paper Prototyping Efficacy -- Focus Group Discussions -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- DEVELOPING AN TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- Disaster Type & Scale -- Human Behavior - A Ghost in the System -- HURRICANE KATRINA & HUMAN FAILURE -- Psychodynamic Government Dependency Model.

Political Psychology -- Narrative Psychology -- Sociological Views of Disaster Management - Compa -- MEASUREMENT, META-ANALYSIS, AND THEORY BUILDING -- Performance Assessment & Measurement Strategies -- Anticipating the Importance of Meta-analytics -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY BUILDING -- REFERENCES -- Technical Performance Analysis Metrics -- Operator Performance Analysis Metrics -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PATTERNS MINING PROCESS -- New specific patterns -- Pattern name: Up-to-date -- Adapted patterns -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND AND RELATED WORK -- DIMENSIONS OF DISASTER -- Scale -- Implications of Differences in Scale -- Users -- Tasks -- Contexts -- Kind -- Implications of Differences in Kind -- Users -- Tasks -- Contexts -- Anticipability -- Implications of Differences in Anticipability -- Users -- Tasks -- Contexts -- IMPLICATIONS FOR DESIGN -- FUTURE WORK -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- RELATED WORK -- COMPUTATIONAL HUMAN INTERACTION MODELING: FRAMEWORK -- Input Analysis -- Audio-Visual Speech -- Gesture Recognition -- Face Detection and Facial Expression Recognition -- Pen Input Recognition -- Contextual Interpretation -- Response Selection -- Information Presentation -- COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE -- APPLYING THE FRAMEWORK: EVALUATION -- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- PUBLIC WARNING -- RESEARCH & GUIDELINES FOR AUDITORY ALARMS AND SPEECH DISPLAYS -- LESSONS FROM ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION -- CURRENT RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS GEOVISUAL ANALYTICS? -- GEOVISUAL ANALYTICS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABSTRACT.

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