Supporting improvisation work in inter-organizational crisis management

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1529-1538

  Ley, Benedikt ^a   Pipek, Volkmar ^a   Reuter, Christian ^a   Wiedenhoefer, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Crisis management; Ethnography; Improvisation

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ETHNOGRAPHY; FIRE DEPARTMENT; GERMANY; IMPROVISATION; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INTERORGANIZATIONAL COOPERATION; LARGE POWER; MANAGERIAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; SITUATION ASSESSMENT; VISUALIZATION OF INFORMATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862072423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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