http://hdl.handle.net/10016/8201 2013-05-23T15:02:44Z 2013-05-23T15:02:44Z Malizia, Alessio Bellucci, Andrea Díaz Pérez, Paloma Aedo, Ignacio Levialdi, S. http://hdl.handle.net/10016/13957 2012-03-27T22:34:42Z 2011-03-31T22:00:00Z

Title: eStorys: A visual storyboard system supporting back- channel communication for emergencies Author(s): Malizia, Alessio; Bellucci, Andrea; Díaz Pérez, Paloma; Aedo, Ignacio; Levialdi, S. Abstract: In this paper we present a new web mashup system for helping people and professionals to retrieve information about emergencies and disasters. Today, the use of the web during emergencies, is confirmed by the employment of systems like Flickr, Twitter or Facebook as demonstrated in the cases of Hurricane Katrina, the July 7, 2005 London bombings, and the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Polytechnic University. Many pieces of information are currently available on the web that can be useful for emergency purposes and range from messages on forums and blogs to georeferenced photos. We present here a system that, by mixing information available on the web, is able to help both people and emergency professionals in rapidly obtaining data on emergency situations by using multiple web channels. In this paper we introduce a visual system, providing a combination of tools that demonstrated to be effective in such emergency situations, such as spatio/temporal search features, recommendation and filtering tools, and storyboards. We demonstrated the efficacy of our system by means of an analytic evaluation (comparing it with others available on the web), an usability evaluation made by expert users (students adequately trained) and an experimental evaluation with 34 participants.

2011-03-31T22:00:00Z Malizia, Alessio Astorga-Paliza, Francisco Onorati, Teresa Díaz Pérez, Paloma Aedo, Ignacio http://hdl.handle.net/10016/7804 2011-09-23T10:50:18Z 2008-04-30T22:00:00Z

Title: Emergency Alerts for all: an ontology based approach to improve accessibility in emergency alerting systems Author(s): Malizia, Alessio; Astorga-Paliza, Francisco; Onorati, Teresa; Díaz Pérez, Paloma; Aedo, Ignacio Abstract: When a disaster occurs it is critical that emergency response information systems share a common ontology to support their disaster management alerting functions and notifications. Notifications are critical when an emergency scenario is going to happen (e.g. a typhoon approaching) so it is crucial, for emergency systems, to be able to transmit them to all kinds of recipients. An ontology was developed by investigating different sources: accessibility guidelines, emergency response systems, communication devices and technologies, taking into account the different abilities of people to react to different alarms (e.g. mobile phone vibration as an alarm for deaf people). We think that the proposed ontology addresses the information needs for sharing and integrating emergency notification messages and contents over different emergency response information systems and to be accessible under different conditions and for different kind of users. Description: 11 pages, 7 figures.-- Contributed to: 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Respose and Management (ISCRAM2008, Washington, DC, USA, May 4-7 2008).

2008-04-30T22:00:00Z Montells, Laura Montero, Susana Díaz Pérez, Paloma Aedo, Ignacio http://hdl.handle.net/10016/7811 2011-09-23T10:20:52Z 2007-04-30T22:00:00Z

Title: Mining Patterns for Web-based Emergency Management Systems Author(s): Montells, Laura; Montero, Susana; Díaz Pérez, Paloma; Aedo, Ignacio Abstract: Design patterns describe problems that occur recurrently, and specify the core of the solution in such a way that we can (re)use it in different contexts and applications. Although, web-based Emergency Management Systems domain is still in its nascent stages, there are design principles, real systems and design patterns from other related areas that can be a valuable source of knowledge to mine design patterns. From these sources we have created a patterns catalogue to assist novice designers on discovering what issues should be addressed to develop useful and successful systems. In this paper, we present the mining process and some patterns as example. Description: 6 pages, 1 figure.-- Contributed to: 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM2007, Delft, the Netherlands, May 13-16, 2007).

2007-04-30T22:00:00Z Malizia, Alessio Acuña, Pablo Aedo, Ignacio Díaz Pérez, Paloma Onorati, Teresa http://hdl.handle.net/10016/7796 2011-09-23T10:05:22Z 2009-04-30T22:00:00Z

Title: CAP-ONES: An Emergency Notification System for all Author(s): Malizia, Alessio; Acuña, Pablo; Aedo, Ignacio; Díaz Pérez, Paloma; Onorati, Teresa Abstract: In this paper we present an ontology-based system for managing emergency alert notifications. Our purpose is to generate emergency alerts that are accessible to different kinds of people, paying special attention to more vulnerable collectives like impaired people. By adapting alerts to different devices and users we can allow Emergency Management Systems (EMS) to communicate with collectives like blind or deaf people whom otherwise will be unreachable by usual channels. Moreover, if we consider the constrains imposed by the nature of the emergency situations we can also improve the information transmission to cope with situational disabilities (e.g. smoke during a fire can cause low vision problems). We centered our system architecture on two characteristics: the first one is an ontology that codifies knowledge about accessibility, devices, disabilities, emergencies and media so the alert notification can be tailored according to different parameters; the second one is the use of an open standard like the CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) that enables our system to interoperate with other existing systems. Description: 10 pages, 7 figures.-- Contributed to: 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Respose and Management (ISCRAM2009, Göteborg, Sweden, May 10-13, 2009).; Later published as article in: International Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 6, n. 3-4, p. 302-316 (11 February 2010), http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJEM.2009.031568

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