In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic due to the rapid
spread of COVID-19. Two years into the pandemic, there have been over one million COVID …

Singles' Day, an online shopping event (OSE), is a dynamic digital experience with
consumer incentives, hedonic presence, and social gamification designed to encourage …

Collaboration comes in many forms. How relevant stakeholders collaborate at the scale of a
system deserves scholarly attention because their practices may differ from traditional teams …

Mobilising helpers in the event of a flood or letting friends know that you are okay in the
event of a terrorist attack–more and more people are using social media in emergency, crisis …

Will private households owning a photovoltaic system share their electricity during a long-
lasting power outage? Prior research has shown that our energy systems need to become …

COVID-19 changed society in terms of employment, food security, and mental health,
affecting all segments of the population. Surging demands for a wide range of support could …

Ereignisse, die schnell, mit einer großen Wucht und immensen Auswirkungen auf Mensch
und Umwelt einwirken, nennt man Schockereignisse. Ausgehend von zwei …

In the last few years, a large part of the humankind has been affected in different ways by the
COVID-19 crisis, that is, the global public health emergency declared due to the spread of …

Extreme weather events including natural disasters pose a growing risk to human
individuals and populations worldwide. Crisis informatics, which studies flows of information …

This dissertation expands the scope of crisis informatics research by exploring the role of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in facilitating coproduction for addressing …