Supporting collaborative sensemaking in map-based emergency management and planning

Emergency management and planning often involves multiple domain experts with diverse knowledge backgrounds and responsibilities. Current practices in emergency management and planning have not leveraged the state-of-art technologies in information sharing, synthesis, and analysis. The proposed research will investigate the process of collaborative sensemaking in emergency planning and implement a mapbased online system to support this process. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3. [Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI)] Group and Organization Interfaces: Computer-supported cooperative work General Terms: Measurement, Design, Experimentation

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: GROUP
• Authors: Anna Wu, Xiaolong Zhang
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Diverse Knowledge Backgrounds, Emergency Management, GROUP 2009, Multiple Domain Experts