View source for Session 1 - Introduction to INFO319 and Emergency Management

'''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: 
# W. Blanchard, “Hazards, disasters and the U.S.emergency management: An introduction,” DHS, report, 2006.
# R. A. Posner, Catastrophe: risk and response. Oxford University Press, 2004.
# 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.
# 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.
# 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.
#J. Landgren, “Designing information technology for emergency response,” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Applied Information Technology, IT University of Göteborg, Göteborg University, 2007.
# R. Kankanamge, Rahubadde Prasanna, “Information systems for supporting fire emergency response,” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Business Economics, University of Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK, 2010.
#J. Larsen, Responding to Catastrophic Events: Consequence Management and Policies. Springer, 2013.
#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.
# W3c Interoperability Group, “Emergency information interoperability frameworks,” 2009. [Online]. Available: https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/XGR-Framework-20090806/
# 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
#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]]