Response to Emergence in Emergency Response

Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Crisis Management, A workshop in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence

计算机科学;管理科学

Lisa Anne Wood* ; Monika Büscher* ; Leonardo Ramirez†

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PID  :  29451

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

This paper develops a (constructive) critique of the potential of ambient intelligence technologies in emergency response. We explore some difficulties in, andsuccessful practices of, inter-agency collaboration in emergency response, revealed inethnographic field studies and collaborative design workshops with first respondersundertaken in the frame of the Bridge project. We describe four challenges with refer- ence to literature and our own fieldwork in Emergency Management InformationSystems (EMIS) design: data transparency, interpretation/intuition, flexible workingand information overload. We posit that ambient intelligence has a great deal to offerin the creation of emergency management information systems but that these offer- ings should be guided by ‘modesty’ and an ongoing entanglement with emergencypractitioners.