Social media have great power to spread information, and this is particularly noticeable
when an emergency occurs. The extraction of accurate information from social media can …

In emergencies, the involvement of informal volunteers as first responders plays a crucial
role in alerting professionals and carrying out initial rescue efforts due to their proximity to …

Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) has become an important aspect in crisis
and disaster management. Volunteers undertaking relief efforts in affected areas are …

In decision-making for major emergencies, the risk of a decision is caused by both the
uncertainty of the decision maker and his or her deviation from group consistency. In this …

Online crowdsourcing enables the distribution of work to a global labor force as small and
often repetitive tasks. Recently, situated crowdsourcing has emerged as a complementary …

抄録 Transportation infrastructures, as both enablers and victims of social movements, often
become major political arenas of cities. In this article, we unravel the understudied role that …

This paper discusses the cocreated emergency response to the climate-related incident of
coastal flooding in Jyllinge, Roskilde Municipality, Denmark. The field work revealed an …

Purpose This study aims to profile the government microbloggers and evaluate their roles.
The results can help improve the governments' response capability to public emergencies …

Community action and voluntary initiatives have always played an important role in
responding to disasters. However, the sheer scale and pace at which affected communities …

Worker recruitment is one of the important problems in crowdsourcing, and many proposals
have been presented for placing equipment in physical spaces for recruiting workers. One of …