eStorys: A visual storyboard system supporting back-channel communication for emergencies

Abstract

6In this paper we present a new web mashup system for helping people and currently available on the web that can be useful for emergency purposes 13 and range from messages on forums and blogs to georeferenced photos. We 14 present here a system that, by mixing information available on the web, is 15 able to help both people and emergency professionals in rapidly obtaining 16 data on emergency situations by using multiple web channels. In this paper 17 we introduce a visual system, providing a combination of tools that demon-

Transforming Haptic Storyboards into Diagrammatic Models: The Scene2Model Tool

“…Storyboards are a visualization tool which displays the key moments of a story, synthesizing them in a cohesive and illustrative flow [13]. The simplicity of storyboard sketches or objects and the light annotation is meant to encourage discussion, team collaboration [14] and enables designers to explain events, to identify logical errors in the story flow or present results [15]. Additionally, storyboards can be used to create prototypes for early solutions and test hypotheses [10].…”

TAPAS: A tangible End-User Development tool supporting the repurposing of Pervasive Displays

“…During the workshop's first phase -lasting 30 minutes -participants were instructed in the context of this research and the specific scenario we are focusing on. We showed them some examples of workflows from IFTTT (IF This Then That) 5 , a widely popular Web mashup system [48]; it allows users to create simple event-based if-then-style workflows with different Web services and acts as a hub connecting their events' triggers with actions: one can describe simple rules by selecting the event that will trigger the workflow (e.g., when the current temperature rises a provided value or when the user edits a specific file on Dropbox) and an action that should be performed in any other -even the same -supported Web service (e.g., tweet about it or send the file via email), as shown in figure 1. We have used these examples to showcase different types of workflows, their inner logic and how the trigger selection provides the subsequent action with anchors dependent on the output's type: when the event concerns a location the action can access its GPS coordinates, when it involves a text file the action will be able to use its content, and so on.…”

Big Board: Teleconferencing Over Maps for Shared Situational Awareness

“…Data in the system are obtained from real simple syndication (RSS) feeds and are visualized to support situational awareness for disaster management. Yet another tool is eStoryS (emergency storyboard system) proposed by (Malizia et al 2011) that is centered around the concept of storyboarding. The eStoryS system integrates information such as text and pictures from a number of social media sites and other georeferenced information on the web to present a unified map-based system for emergency communication.…”

“…Existing geocollaborative tools obtain data from a number of standard web-based sources such as HTTP requests (Gupta and Knoblock 2010), RSS feeds (Tomaszewski 2011), and social media (Malizia et al 2011). In the Big Board we have chosen to exploit a potentially huge number of web-based mapping services to layer content from.…”