Real-time emergency response: improved management of real-time information during crisis situations

Blum, Jeffrey R.; Eichhorn, Alexander; Smith, Severin; Sterle-Contala, Michael; Cooperstock, Jeremy R.

doi:10.1007/s12193-013-0139-7

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“…The key role of social channels in monitoring activities may be further enhanced by opportunities in terms of data visualization and learning, which are aimed at preventing and/or improving overall management practices [31,32]. In addition, social media have interesting advantages over traditional media, as they provide a chance for the early detection of natural disasters [33], the coordination of relief and rescue actions [34], or obtaining real-time event information [35].…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social-Media Analysis for Disaster Prevention: Forest Fire in Artenara and Valleseco, Canary Islands

Zamarreño-Aramendia

Cristòfol

Vela

et al. 2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This manuscript investigates the use of social media, specifically Twitter, during the forest fires in Artenara and Valleseco, Canary Islands, Spain, during summer 2019. The used methodology was big-data analysis through the Union Metrics and Twlets tools, as well as content analysis of posts related to the fires written by seven relevant accounts on the days when the fires were active, which was between 17 August and 26 September, when 9636.40 hectares were burned. The accounts selected for analysis were the following: Ángel Víctor Torres, autonomous president; Canary Islands Government; Civil Protection of Las Palmas; Military Emergency Unit of the Spanish Army; Delegation of the Spanish Government in the Canary Islands; Citizen’s Service of the Canary Islands Government; and the information account of the Security and Emergency area of the Canary Islands Government. The study concludes that the Canary Islands authorities did not use social media as a preventive element, but almost exclusively as a live-information channel. Future recommendations are presented for the management of social media during natural disasters.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social-Media Analysis for Disaster Prevention: Forest Fire in Artenara and Valleseco, Canary Islands

Zamarreño-Aramendia

Cristòfol

Vela

et al. 2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Manual analysis on such amounts of information is not possible, especially in times of stress during emergency management, and thus automated systems that enable real-time monitoring of the flow of information are required (Pohl, Bouchachia, & Hellwagner, 2012). At the same time, there is a need to prevent cognitive overload of the commanders and decision makers by flooding them with such unlimited information (Blum, Eichhorn, Smith, Sterle-Contala, & Cooperstock, 2013). The writing style of tweets, due to the length constraints and the use of natural language, complicates the automatic analysis capabilities, such as different names people assign to events and locations (Chan et al, 2014).…”

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Socializing in emergencies—A review of the use of social media in emergency situations

Simon

Goldberg

Adini

2015

International Journal of Information Management

384

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a b s t r a c tSocial media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens, researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that occurred globally in the last few years have shown that social media tools may serve as an integral and significant component of crisis response. Communication is one of the fundamental tools of emergency management. It becomes crucial when there are dozens of agencies and organizations responding to a disaster. Regardless of the type of emergency, whether a terrorist attack, a hurricane or an earthquake, communication lines may be overloaded and cellular networks overwhelmed as too many people attempt to use them to access information. Social scientists have presented that post-disaster active public participation was largely altruistic, including activities such as search and rescue, first aid treatment, victim evacuation, and online help. Social media provides opportunities for engaging citizens in the emergency management by both disseminating information to the public and accessing information from them. During emergency events, individuals are exposed to large quantities of information without being aware of their validity or risk of misinformation, but users are usually swift to correct them, thus making the social media "self-regulating".

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“…A number of recent works highlight the utility of this potential, for example in real-time emergency response [47,48], opportunistic data dissemination [49], crowd-supported sensing and processing [50], and many others. Crowdsourced ICT based solutions are also increasingly applied in the assistive technology arena, as evidenced by several recent works on e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

A survey of assistive technologies and applications for blind users on mobile platforms: a review and foundation for research

Csapó

Wersényi

Nagy

et al. 2015

J Multimodal User Interfaces

136

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This paper summarizes recent developments in audio and tactile feedback based assistive technologies targeting the blind community. Current technology allows applications to be efficiently distributed and run on mobile and handheld devices, even in cases where computational requirements are significant. As a result, electronic travel aids, navigational assistance modules, text-to-speech applications, as well as virtual audio displays which combine audio with haptic channels are becoming integrated into standard mobile devices. This trend, combined with the appearance of increasingly user-friendly interfaces and modes of interaction has opened a variety of new perspectives for the rehabilitation and training of users with visual impairments. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of these developments based on recent advances in basic research and application development. Using this overview as a foundation, an agenda is outlined for future research in mobile interaction design with respect to users with special needs, as well as ultimately in relation to sensor-bridging applications in general.

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Real-time emergency response: improved management of real-time information during crisis situations

Cited by 26 publications

References 16 publications

Social-Media Analysis for Disaster Prevention: Forest Fire in Artenara and Valleseco, Canary Islands

Social-Media Analysis for Disaster Prevention: Forest Fire in Artenara and Valleseco, Canary Islands

Socializing in emergencies—A review of the use of social media in emergency situations

A survey of assistive technologies and applications for blind users on mobile platforms: a review and foundation for research

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