Print Email Facebook Twitter Distributed collaborative situation-map making for disaster response Title Distributed collaborative situation-map making for disaster response Author Gunawan, L.T. AL-Ers, H.E.B. Brinkman, W.P. Neerincx, M.A. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Mediamatics Date 2011-12-31 Abstract A situation map that shows the overview of a disaster situation serves as a valuable tool for disaster response teams. It helps them to orientate their location and to make disaster response decisions. It is, however, a complicated task to rapidly generate a complete and comprehensive situation map of a disaster area, particularly due to the centralized organization of disaster management and the limited emergency services. In this study, we propose to let the affected population be utilised as an additional resource that can actively help to make such a situation map. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of constructing a shared situation map using a collaborative distributed mechanism. By examining earlier research, a detailed list of potential problems is identified in the collaborative map-making process. These problems were then addressed in an experiment which evaluated a number of proposed solutions. The results showed that more collaboration channels led to a situation map of better quality, and that including confidence information for objects and events in the map helped the discussion process during the map-making. Subject collaboration, sensemaking, situation mapping, disaster response, map sharing, situation awareness,distributed To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bdda4942-11ef-48fb-a397-0d31bbd3e606 ISSN 0953-5438 Source Interacting with Computers 23(4)2011, 308-316 Preliminary version Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c)2011 Gunawan, L.T., AL-Ers, H.E.B., Brinkman, W.P., Neerincx, M.A. Files PDF 279400.pdf 256.27 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bdda4942-11ef-48fb-a397-0d31bbd3e606/datastream/OBJ/view