Session 1 - Introduction to INFO319 and Emergency Management

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Date: Thursday August 20th

Topics:

  • Plans for the course: research themes and sessions, your expectations
  • A little about each research theme - what we want to focus on
  • Introduction to Emergency management
  • Plans for the individual essays: topics, requirements, presentations and critique, final submission
  • Plans for the group programming projects: requirements, process, final submission
  • Can we find a joint theme and make the programming projects into a class project?

Suitable readings:

  • Chapter 1 in Carlos Castillo's book Big Crisis Data.
  • Articles:
  1. W. Blanchard, “Hazards, disasters and the U.S.emergency management: An introduction,” DHS, report, 2006.
  2. R. A. Posner, Catastrophe: risk and response. Oxford University Press, 2004.
  3. B. N. Porfiriev, “Disaster and disaster areas: Methodological issues of definition and delineation,” in an international Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 285–304, 1995.
  4. L. Weisæth, Ø. Knudsen, and A. Tønnessen, “Technological disasters, crisis management and leadership stress,” in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 33–45, 2002.
  5. S. Shen and M. Shaw, “Managing coordination in emergency response systems with information technologies,” in the Americas Conference on Information Systems, pp. 1–12, 2004.
  6. J. Landgren, “Designing information technology for emergency response,” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Applied Information Technology, IT University of Göteborg, Göteborg University, 2007.
  7. R. Kankanamge, Rahubadde Prasanna, “Information systems for supporting fire emergency response,” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Business Economics, University of Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK, 2010.
  8. J. Larsen, Responding to Catastrophic Events: Consequence Management and Policies. Springer, 2013.
  9. S. Brown, J. Son, Z. Aziz, and F. Peña-Mora, “Supporting disaster response and recovery through improved situation awareness,” in the Structural Survey, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 411–425, 2008.
  10. W3c Interoperability Group, “Emergency information interoperability frameworks,” 2009. [Online]. Available: https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/XGR-Framework-20090806/
  11. Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos, "What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises". [online] Available: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2675242
  12. Police officers' learning in relation to emergency management: A case study. [online] Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221242091630680X?via%3Dihub


Student preparations / presentations: none for the first session

Slides:

Practical information: See canvas

Introduction to emergency management: See canvas

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