Role playing with fire fighters

Valkonen, Paula; Liinasuo, Marja

doi:10.1145/1868914.1869034

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“…Widely used in user-centered design, role playing allows researchers to observe plausible interactions among participants, typically end-users and domain-experts, as they develop within hypothetical situations [21]. Role play is especially useful for understanding activity in emergency situations that are difficult to directly observe and inappropriate for research activities [38].…”

Section: Role Play Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role Playing Next Generation 9-1-1: Sensemaking with Social Media in Public-Safety Answering Points

Grace¹,

Kropczynski²,

Tapia³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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For over a decade, research has suggested that social media can enhance the situational awareness of emergency responders during a crisis. Rarely, however, do studies examine the sensemaking processes of emergency responders by which situational awareness is achieved. We examine sensemaking in a Public-Safety Answering Point (PSAP) through role plays with 9-1-1 telecommunicators that imagine how social media analysts can contribute to sensemaking processes among 9-1-1 call takers, dispatchers, and emergency responders. These role plays suggest social media can address information gaps that emerge when 9-1-1 callers fail to provide critical information and vice versa, suggesting social media enhances situational awareness only when integrated into sensemaking processes that synthesize information across multiple, incomplete, but complementary data sources. This synthesis, however, requires cooperative information gathering and sharing among call takers, dispatchers, and social media analysts that PSAPs can coordinate using common interpretive frameworks and common information spaces.

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Section: Role Play Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%