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Map-Mediated GeoCollaborative Crisis Management

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005)

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Managing crises requires collecting geographical intelligence and making spatial decisions through collaborative efforts among multiple, distributed agencies and task groups. Crisis management also requires close coordination among individuals and groups of individuals who need to collaboratively derive information from geospatial data and use that information in coordinated ways. However, geospatial information systems do not currently support group work and can not meet the information needs of crisis managers. This paper describes a group interface for geographical information system, featuring multimodal human input, conversational dialogues, and same-time, different place communications among teams.

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  1. GeoVISTA Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

    Guoray Cai, Alan M. MacEachren, Isaac Brewer, Mike McNeese, Rajeev Sharma & Sven Fuhrmann

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  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University,  

    Paul Kantor

  2. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, 08901-1071, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Gheorghe Muresan

  3. Artificial Solutions, Altonaer Poststraße 13b, 22767, Hamburg, Germany

    Fred Roberts

  4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng

  5. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

  6. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  7. College of Computing, Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph C. Merkle

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Cai, G., MacEachren, A.M., Brewer, I., McNeese, M., Sharma, R., Fuhrmann, S. (2005). Map-Mediated GeoCollaborative Crisis Management. In: Kantor, P., et al. Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_39

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