USERS NEEDS FOR COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT IN EMERGENCY INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Teresa Onorati, Alessio Malizia, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo

2009

Abstract

The management of an emergency is a cooperative work that involves people from different areas and different roles. Collaborative tools are potentially useful for solving emergency situations but their utility depends on the emergency workers’ needs. In this paper, we describe an empirical study based on surveys and interviews that have been done with users to study how to improve the collaborative functionalities of an existing system used for cooperating and sharing resources among different Spanish Emergency Management governmental agencies. The goal of the study was to understand how emergency workers cooperate in real emergencies and the kind of tools they are actually using, as well as to identify potential strategies and technologies to improve the level of computer-supported collaboration.

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in Harvard Style

Onorati T., Malizia A., Díaz P. and Aedo I. (2009). USERS NEEDS FOR COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT IN EMERGENCY INFORMATION SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-88-3, pages 48-54. DOI: 10.5220/0001984200480054


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Teresa Onorati and Alessio Malizia and Paloma Díaz and Ignacio Aedo},
title={USERS NEEDS FOR COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT IN EMERGENCY INFORMATION SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={48-54},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001984200480054},
isbn={978-989-8111-88-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - USERS NEEDS FOR COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT IN EMERGENCY INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-88-3
AU - Onorati T.
AU - Malizia A.
AU - Díaz P.
AU - Aedo I.
PY - 2009
SP - 48
EP - 54
DO - 10.5220/0001984200480054