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Table of Contents
• Preface: Applying AmI technologies to crisis management
• Response to Emergence in Emergency Response
Lisa A. Wood, Monika Buscher, Leonardo Ramirez
• An Analysis of the use of Cognitive Surplus in Disaster Relief Scenarios
Mark Roddy
• Disaster Management Tool (DMT) - Usability Engineering, System Architec-
ture and Field Experiments
Martin Frassl, Michael Lichtenstern, Michael Angermann
• Smart Jacket as a Collaborative Tangible User Interface in Crisis Manage-
ment
Monica Divitini, Babak A. Farshchian, Jacqueline Floch, Bjørn Magnus Ma-
thisen, Simone Mora, Thomas Vilarinho
• Key challenges in multi-agency collaboration during large-scale emergency
management
Aslak Wegner Eide, Ida Maria Haugstveit, Ragnhild Halvorsrud, Jan Håvard
Skjetne, Michael Stiso
• The MIRROR AppSphere: the case of crisis management
Simone Mora, Simon Schwantzer, Monica Divitini
• BRIDGE Risk Analyzer: A Collaborative Tool for Enhanced Risk Analysis in
Crisis Situations
Mass Soldal Lund, Atle Refsdal
• Tactical Information Visualization for Operation Managers in Mass Casual-
ty Incidents
Mathias Wilhelm, Eva Burneleit, Sahin Albayrak
• Conclusions and summary of discussions
Monica Divitini, Babak A. Farshchian, Jacqueline Floch, Ragnhild Halvors-
rud, Simone Mora, Michael Stiso
Preface: Applying AmI technologies to crisis
management
Workshop at AmI2012
Monica Divitini1, Babak Farshchian2, Jacqueline Floch2, Ragnhild Halvorsrud2,
Simone Mora1, Michael Stiso2
1
Dept. of Information and Computer Science, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
{divitini, simonem}@idi.ntnu.no
2
SINTEF ICT, Oslo| Trondheim, Norway
{Babak.Farshchian, Jacqueline.Floch, Ragnhild. Halvorsrud,
Michael.Stiso}@sintef.no
1 Introduction
Natural and man-made disasters are on the rise, with sources reporting on a five-fold
increase of natural disasters in the last 35 years 1. In 2010, DG ECHO (the EU Direc-
torate for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection) reported a EU expenditure of €1115
million to respond to new or protracted crises, and 373 natural disasters killing around
300000 people 2.
ICT solutions proposed for supporting crisis management vary considerably in scope
and complexity, ranging from organizational workflow systems up to platforms like
Ushahidi (http://ushahidi.com/) for crowd sourcing and the usage of Twitter (twit-
ter.com) to share information among the population.
Because of their pervasiveness and ease of use, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) solutions
hold a great potential to support crisis management in an efficient and effective way,
thereby contributing to saving lives, reducing risks for rescue teams and lowering
costs. Several example solutions are described in the research literature, such as moni-
toring of environmental data under hard conditions, impact of information presenta-
tion on decision-making, rescuer teams management supported with physiological
data monitoring, situational awareness support for rapid crowd evacuation.
This workshop has been organized to better understand the strengths of the AmI para-
digm and challenges to its application. It offered to researchers and practitioners a
1
http://www.euractiv.com/foreign-affairs/europe-beef-response-natural-disasters-news-499193
2
EU DG ECHO, Annual Report 2010, available at
http://ec.europa.eu/echo/files/media/publications/annual_report/annual_report_2010.pdf
space to reflect on where these increasingly pervasive and ambient technologies are
going, what they will make possible, and how they will be used. Focus was on chal-
lenges connected to the use of AmI in crisis management as well as the opportunities
to use AmI to conceive innovative solutions, e.g. empowering not only traditional
actors, but also the population at large; supporting not only management, but also
promoting continuous learning and training. Relevant topics included platforms is-
sues, user interaction in challenging environments, methodologies and applications.
This volume collects the 8 papers that were presented at the workshop, addressing
these topics from different angles. Together they provide an up to date overview of
the state of the art in the field.
2 Organization
The workshop was jointly organized by three EU IST research projects that investi-
gate from different perspectives ICT support for crisis management:
• (http://www.bridgeproject.eu) aims at building a system to
support technical and social interoperability in large-scale emergency manage-
ment.
• (http://www.mirror-project.eu/) aims at developing ICT
tools for supporting workplace reflection and learning. Training of crisis workers
is a core application domain of the project.
• (http://www.ict-societies.eu/) aims at extending the appli-
cation of pervasive computing beyond the individual to communities of users.
Disaster management is chosen as one area for the evaluation of the proposed so-
lutions.
More information about the workshop is available at the workshop website:
http://ami4cm.wordpress.com/