Increasing shared information availability during urban emergency responses

Alvaro Monares, Valeria Herskovic, David Suarez, Manuel Ibarra, Sergio F. Ochoa, Jose A. Pino

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Resumen

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.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaProceedings of the 2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD2011
Páginas677-684
Número de páginas8
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2011
Publicado de forma externa
Evento2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2011 - Lausanne, Suiza
Duración: 8 jun. 201110 jun. 2011

Serie de la publicación

NombreProceedings of the 2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2011

Conferencia

Conferencia2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2011
País/TerritorioSuiza
CiudadLausanne
Período8/06/1110/06/11

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