Socialmedia data has been increasingly used to facilitate situational awareness during
events and emergencies such as natural disasters. While researchers have investigated …

We live in a time when anyone can change from a passive bystander to an active
communicator during a crisis. This makes user-generated content a potentially valuable …

Social media has emerged as a valuable resource for disaster management, revolutionizing
the way emergency response and recovery efforts are conducted during natural disasters …

During crisis situations, emergency operators require fast information access to achieve
situation awareness and make the best possible decisions. Augmented reality could be …

Public and humanitarian organizations monitor social media to extract useful information
during emergencies. In this paper, we propose a new method for identifying situation …

For over a decade, the field of crisis informatics has observed novel, ad hoc uses of social
media among citizens and digital volunteers while noting barriers that impede social media …

The importance of social media usage during crisis has been well established in academic
and practitioner communities. Yet, the promise of rendering insights from social media for …

Timely access to up-to-date and relevant disaster information is crucial for disaster response
organizations to make effective decisions and proper management strategies to lessen the …

Situational awareness tries to grasp the important events and circumstances in the physical
world through sensing, communication, and reasoning. Tracking the evolution of changing …

The field of crisis informatics now has a decade-long history of designing tools that leverage
social media to support decision-makers situation awareness. Despite this history, there …