Category Archives: disaster

Crisis rooms and situation reporting

At the end of last week, I had the fortune to meet a great group of people at the EU/JRC in Ispra Italy. Markus Rester and Tom de Groeve organised a two-day workshop on Situation Reporting and BigWall-HCI. They had invited crisis … Continue reading

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Highlights from the CSCW2012 Conference

Directly from the CSCW2012 conference in Bellevue (WA) in United States, here is my list of the most interesting pieces of work related to my own research field. A majority of the papers are related to social media in crisis response, … Continue reading

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What do we mean when we say crisis? Get ready for ISCRAM2012

Over time, when professional, commercial and researcher communities have been talking about crisis and the many different strategies, policies, methods and tools to prevent and mitigate crisis, I start to wonder what do we mean when we say crisis. The … Continue reading

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Myter och okunskap kring hur allmänheten agera vid kriser och stora olyckor

Det finns en hel del myter och ren okunskap kring hur allmänheten som grupp samt hur individer beter sig vid kriser och större olyckor. Alltför ofta hör jag av personer på exempelvis Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap och SOS-alarm att … Continue reading

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Good Blog: incaseofemergencyblog.com

Just recently become aware of this very nice blog: http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/Check it out!

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How do you design IT for organizations that can´t afford IT? – You don’t!

Today, I had a very good conversation with my fellow researcher Fredrik, about designing tiny collaborative systems. We ended up in a discussion on how do you design IT for organizations that cannot afford making investments in IT. Such organizations … Continue reading

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Earth quake in Italy: Twitter provides live updates

The earth quake that struck the Italian city this morning is all over on the big media headlines.Video from the response work is available on many traditional media websites. Twitter is also providing a stream of updates from people in … Continue reading

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