Anna Wu
ABSTRACT
Emergency management and planning often involves multiple domain experts with diverse knowledge backgrounds and responsibilities. Current practices in emergency management and planning have not leveraged the state-of-art technologies in information sharing, synthesis, and analysis. The proposed research will investigate the process of collaborative sensemaking in emergency planning and implement a map-based online system to support this process.
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- Supporting collaborative sensemaking in map-based emergency management and planning
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