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Implementing AI to Assist Situation Awareness: Organizational and Policy Challenges

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Achieving situation awareness (SA) among first responders is an enduring challenge. As illustrated perhaps most starkly in the 9/11 response to the World Trade Center, the consequences of separate command posts and inability to utilize radio interoperability led to a breakdown of SA which exacerbated the toll in terms of deaths, primarily among first responders ([1]; [2], p. 9).

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This work was performed with support from National Science Foundation grant# 1934968, Growing Converege Research: Emotionally Responsive Computation and Communication.

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Jennings, C.R. (2022). Implementing AI to Assist Situation Awareness: Organizational and Policy Challenges. In: Naser, M., Corbett, G. (eds) Handbook of Cognitive and Autonomous Systems for Fire Resilient Infrastructures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98685-8_9

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