TY - GEN
T1 - Increasing shared information availability during urban emergency responses
AU - Monares, Alvaro
AU - Herskovic, Valeria
AU - Suarez, David
AU - Ibarra, Manuel
AU - Ochoa, Sergio F.
AU - Pino, Jose A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Firefighters are responsible for dealing with several types of urban emergencies, such as fires, car crashes and explosions. The participants in an emergency response process require shared information to make effective, on-time decisions, and to coordinate their activities. The information sharing process is currently performed using message exchange through a radio system. However, limitations in this communication medium jeopardize information availability during the emergency. This may produce undesirable situations, such as lack of coordination among firefighters or wrong decisions due to lack of supporting information. As a way to deal with the problem, this article proposes a computer-based system, which complements the radio system. The system helps increase the availability of the information that is most frequently requested by firefighters in the field, identified by a study of 65 past emergencies. The results of a preliminary evaluation indicate the solution is able to ensure the availability of at least the 30% of the most requested information during an emergency.
AB - Firefighters are responsible for dealing with several types of urban emergencies, such as fires, car crashes and explosions. The participants in an emergency response process require shared information to make effective, on-time decisions, and to coordinate their activities. The information sharing process is currently performed using message exchange through a radio system. However, limitations in this communication medium jeopardize information availability during the emergency. This may produce undesirable situations, such as lack of coordination among firefighters or wrong decisions due to lack of supporting information. As a way to deal with the problem, this article proposes a computer-based system, which complements the radio system. The system helps increase the availability of the information that is most frequently requested by firefighters in the field, identified by a study of 65 past emergencies. The results of a preliminary evaluation indicate the solution is able to ensure the availability of at least the 30% of the most requested information during an emergency.
KW - Information sharing
KW - communication
KW - coordination
KW - information availability
KW - urban emergencies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052226806&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSCWD.2011.5960191
DO - 10.1109/CSCWD.2011.5960191
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052226806
SN - 9781457703874
T3 - Proceedings of the 2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2011
SP - 677
EP - 684
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD2011
T2 - 2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2011
Y2 - 8 June 2011 through 10 June 2011
ER -