Providing real-time assistance in disaster relief by leveraging crowdsourcing power

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2025-2034

  Yang, Dingqi ^a   Zhang, Daqing ^a   Frank, Korbinian ^b   Robertson, Patrick ^b   Jennings, Edel ^c   Roddy, Mark ^c   Lichtenstern, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Disaster management platform; SUS; System Usability Scale

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; EMERGENCY SERVICES;

COLLABORATIVE WORKING; CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; REMOTE ASSISTANCE; SYSTEM USABILITY; UNIQUE FEATURES;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 84920250303     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: 16174917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-014-0758-3     Document Type: Article

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