Supporting common ground and awareness in emergency management planning: A design research project

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Convertino, Gregorio ^a   Mentis, Helena M ^b   Slavkovic, Aleksandra ^c   Rosson, Mary Beth ^c   Carroll, John M ^c  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity awareness; Colocated and distributed geo collaboration; Common ground; CSCW; Design; Emergency management planning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY AWARENESS; CO-LOCATED; COMMON GROUND; CSCW; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT;

CIVIL DEFENSE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DESIGN; DISASTERS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; RISK MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 84856049239     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2063231.2063236     Document Type: Article

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