Supporting DSS acceptability through a user-centered design methodology: Experiences in emergency management

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 212, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-98

  Baroni, Pietro ^a   Fogli, Daniela ^a   Giacomin, Massimiliano ^a   Guida, Giovanni ^a   Provenza, Loredana Parasiliti ^a   Rossi, Michele ^a   Bohanec, Marko ^b   Žnidaršič, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

decision support systems; emergency management; evaluation; requirement analysis; socio technical gap; User centered design

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CIVIL DEFENSE; DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; RISK MANAGEMENT; USER CENTERED DESIGN;

CASE-STUDIES; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; END-USERS; EVALUATION; PANDEMIC FLU; REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIO-TECHNICAL GAP; SOCIOTECHNICAL; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956018780     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-577-8-87     Document Type: Conference Paper

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