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Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response

Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response
Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response
Command and control environments ranging from transport control rooms to disaster response have long been of interest to HCI and CSCW as rich sites of interactive technology use embedded in work practice. Drawing on our engagement with disaster response teams, including ethnography of their training work, we unpack the ways in which situational uncertainty is managed while a shared operational 'picture' is constituted through various practices around tabletop work. Our analysis reveals how this picture is collaboratively assembled as a socially shared object and displayed by drawing on digital and physical resources. Accordingly, we provide a range of principles implicated by our study that guide the design of systems augmenting and enriching disaster response work practices. In turn, we propose the Augmented Bird Table to illustrate how our principles can be implemented to support tabletop work.
4103-4112
Association for Computing Machinery
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Fischer, Joel, Reeves, Stuart, Rodden, Tom, Reece, Steven, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D. and Jones, David (2015) Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 4103-4112 . (doi:10.1145/2702123.2702313).

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Command and control environments ranging from transport control rooms to disaster response have long been of interest to HCI and CSCW as rich sites of interactive technology use embedded in work practice. Drawing on our engagement with disaster response teams, including ethnography of their training work, we unpack the ways in which situational uncertainty is managed while a shared operational 'picture' is constituted through various practices around tabletop work. Our analysis reveals how this picture is collaboratively assembled as a socially shared object and displayed by drawing on digital and physical resources. Accordingly, we provide a range of principles implicated by our study that guide the design of systems augmenting and enriching disaster response work practices. In turn, we propose the Augmented Bird Table to illustrate how our principles can be implemented to support tabletop work.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 18 April 2015
Published date: 18 April 2015
Venue - Dates: 33rd Annual CHI Conf on Human Factors in Computing systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2015-04-18 - 2015-04-23
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 397469
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397469
PURE UUID: 49d4a11d-2017-4577-8e0f-32e01912f9b3
ORCID for Sarvapali D. Ramchurn: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9686-4302

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Author: Joel Fischer
Author: Stuart Reeves
Author: Tom Rodden
Author: Steven Reece
Author: Sarvapali D. Ramchurn ORCID iD
Author: David Jones

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