Designing for the deluge: Understanding & supporting the distributed, collaborative work of crisis volunteers

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 888-899

  Cobb, Camille ^a   McCarthy, Ted ^a   Perkins, Annuska ^a   Bharadwaj, Ankitha ^a   Comis, Jared ^a   Do, Brian ^a   Starbird, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic participation; Crisis informatics; Crowdsourcing; Digital volunteers; Disaster response; Machine learning; Natural language processing; Social computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CIVIC PARTICIPATION; CRISIS INFORMATICS; CROWDSOURCING; DIGITAL VOLUNTEERS; DISASTER RESPONSE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84899013005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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