Session 1 - Introduction to INFO319 and Emergency Management
Date: Thursday August 30th
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.
Student preparations / presentations: none for the first session
Slides: File:S1-intro-out.pdf