Emergent groups for emergency response - Theoretical foundations and information design implications

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 5391-5399

  Sebastian, Ina M ^a   Bui, Tung X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Emergent groups; Information processing; Motivation; Template; Workflow

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL INFORMATION; DISASTER RELIEF; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EMERGENT GROUPS; GROUP DYNAMICS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION DESIGN; TEMPLATE; TEMPLATE DESIGNS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; WORKFLOW;

DATA PROCESSING; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; MOTIVATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870313197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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