Technology-mediated social arrangements to resolve breakdowns in infrastructure during ongoing disruption

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Semaan, Bryan ^a   Mark, Gloria ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Crisis informatics; Disrupted environments; Empirical study; Human infrastructure; Infrastructure; Ontological security; Recovery; Routines; Trust

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; DISRUPTED ENVIRONMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; HUMAN INFRASTRUCTURE; INFORMATICS; INFRASTRUCTURE; ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY; ROUTINES; TRUST;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RECOVERY;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84856029204     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2063231.2063235     Document Type: Article

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