Can volunteer crowdsourcing reduce disaster risk? A systematic review of the literature

N Kankanamge, T Yigitcanlar, A Goonetilleke… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Disasters are natural catastrophic events that cause damage to property and loss of lives.
Highly-reliable in-situ location information is critical for rescue efforts during and after …

Task allocation in spatial crowdsourcing: Current state and future directions

B Guo, Y Liu, L Wang, VOK Li… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is an emerging paradigm of crowdsourcing, which commits
workers to move to some particular locations to perform spatio-temporal-relevant tasks (eg …

Fifteen years of social media in emergencies: a retrospective review and future directions for crisis informatics

C Reuter, MA Kaufhold - Journal of contingencies and crisis …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social media has been established in many larger emergencies and crises. This process
has not started just a few years ago, but already 15 years ago in 2001 after the terrorist …

Social media in crisis management: An evaluation and analysis of crisis informatics research

C Reuter, AL Hughes, MA Kaufhold - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the use of social media in emergency and crisis events
has greatly increased and many studies have concentrated on the use of ICT and social …

Determining disaster severity through social media analysis: Testing the methodology with South East Queensland Flood tweets

N Kankanamge, T Yigitcanlar, A Goonetilleke… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media was underutilised in disaster management practices, as it was not seen as a
real-time ground level information harvesting tool during a disaster. In recent years, with the …

The role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of crowds and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic

KS Al-Omoush, M Orero-Blat… - Journal of Business …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of the
crowd and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also …

How engaging are disaster management related social media channels? The case of Australian state emergency organisations

N Kankanamge, T Yigitcanlar, A Goonetilleke - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media is increasingly becoming a formal tool of communication across the world. For
example, state emergency organisations maintain social media channels to share …

Rapid relevance classification of social media posts in disasters and emergencies: A system and evaluation featuring active, incremental and online learning

MA Kaufhold, M Bayer, C Reuter - Information Processing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during disasters and emergencies. Social media allow emergency …

Mitigating information overload in social media during conflicts and crises: Design and evaluation of a cross-platform alerting system

MA Kaufhold, N Rupp, C Reuter… - Behaviour & Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during conflicts and crises. Social media allow emergency services to …

Powering an ai chatbot with expert sourcing to support credible health information access

Z Xiao, QV Liao, M Zhou, T Grandison, Y Li - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
During a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, a credible and easy-to-access
information portal is highly desirable. It helps with disease prevention, public health …