Ad Hoc participation in situation assessment: Supporting mobile collaboration in emergencies

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Reuter, Christian ^a   Ludwig, Thomas ^a   Pipek, Volkmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Awareness; Collaboration; Design case study; Emergency management; Ethnography; Mobile devices; Participation; Situation assessment

Indexed keywords

MOBILE DEVICES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

AWARENESS; COLLABORATION; DESIGN CASE STUDIES; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; ETHNOGRAPHY; PARTICIPATION; SITUATION ASSESSMENT;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84914181085     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2651365     Document Type: Article

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