Emergency management and planning often involves multiple domain experts with diverse
knowledge backgrounds and responsibilities. Current practices in emergency management …

Sensemaking is the process of understanding an unfamiliar situation in order to act
effectively. Crisis response requires emergency departments and emergency medical …

Emergency management is more than just events occurring within an emergency situation. It
encompasses a variety of persistent activities such as planning, training, assessment, and …

Response organizations often face serious challenges as a result of communication
problems during emergency events. This can to a large extent be traced to the tradition of …

An I-Room is an “intelligent room” which can act as a knowledge aid to support collaborative
meetings, especially those involving sense-making about the current context, planning and …

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 …

An emergency response activity usually involves several teams from different organizations
working cooperatively for the purpose of saving lives or properties. These teams have to …

Emergency planning is an ongoing activity in which a multidisciplinary group of experts
intermittently collaborate to define the most appropriate response to risks. One of the most …

Regional emergency planners use “tabletop” exercises to develop plans, to articulate
strategies and constraints, and to practice working together. We conducted an experimental …

In this paper, we consider novel information sensemaking methods for search and rescue
operations that combine principles of information fusion and collective intelligence in …