Title
Crowdsourcing and crowdtasking in crisis management: Lessons learned from a field experiment simulating a flooding in the city of the Hague
Abstract
The EU FP7 project DRIVER conducts a number of experiments that explore new approaches for addressing known deficiencies in crisis management. The “Interaction with Citizens” experiment campaign focuses on testing the usability and acceptance of various methods and tools that facilitate crisis communication via several channels. These include: informing, alerting, micro-tasking, incident information crowdsourcing from volunteers, and usage of this information to improve situational awareness. The results highlight that volunteer motivation in a serious game like scenario is important to simulate participation in crisis events. We also argue that the scenario complexity level needs to be simple enough to avoid difficulties in communication with non-professional participants in addition to external influences in a field experiment. In this paper, we present lessons learned from the final experiment of this campaign that investigated two-way communication solutions between crisis managers and citizens or unaffiliated volunteers in a simulated flooding scenario in the city of The Hague.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICT-DM.2016.7857212
2016 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
crisis management,unaffiliated volunteers,decision support,crowdsourcing,crowdtasking,micro-tasking,personalized alerting
Situation awareness,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Decision support system,Usability,Knowledge management,Crisis management,Crisis communication,Flooding (psychology)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2469-8822
978-1-5090-5235-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
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