Title
Responding To Disaster In Socio-Technical Systems
Abstract
This paper investigates the cognitive and behavioral processes underlying efforts to respond to disaster within complex socio-technical systems. The main focus of this work is on understanding the impact of disaster severity on these processes. Data for the study are taken from after-action reports compiled by police department personnel who took part in response operations to the 11 September 2001 World Trade Center attacks and the 19 April 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. The results of this analysis show strong evidence that hypothesizing and observing are more commonly performed in low severity events while experimenting is more commonly performed in high severity events. Additionally, behavioral improvisations are more commonly performed in high severity events. Implications of this work for theory and practice are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346653
2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS (SMC 2009), VOLS 1-9
Keywords
Field
DocType
socio-technical systems, emergency response, cognition, behavior, improvisation, decision making
World trade center,Improvisation,Public relations,Computer science,Computer security,Terrorism,Artificial intelligence,Sociotechnical system,Cognition,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1062-922X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ali Avni Cirik100.34
David Mendonça211713.40