CIVIL |
CIVIL is a web-based system prototype developed to support geo-collaboration in emergency management. A multi-view, role-based design is adopted to help team members analyze geo-spatial information, share and integrate critical information, and monitor individual activities. Current design uses coordinated maps and activity visualization to aid decision-making as well as group activity awareness, which is required for collaboration among teams of specialized experts, such as emergency management planning teams, while making decisions need to efficiently pool domain-specific knowledge, synthesize relevant information, and keep track of collaborators activities at a low interaction cost.
Related Publications
Wu, A., Zhang, X., Convertino, G., Ganoe, C., Carroll, J. M. Supporting Collaborative Sensemaking in Emergency Management through Geo-Visualization. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. (Under 2nd-round Review)
Wu, A., Zhang, X., Convertino, G., Ganoe, C., Carroll, J. M. (2009). CIVIL: Support Geocollaboration with Information Visualization. Proc. of Group’09, 273-276. PDF
Convertino, G., Wu, A., Zhang, X., Hoffman, B., Ganoe, C.H., Carroll, J.M. (2008). Designing Group Annotations and Process Visualizations for Role-Based Collaboration. Proc. of the Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, 197-206.PDF
Convertino, G., Zhang, X., Wu, A., Hoffman, B., Ganoe, C.H., Carroll, J.M. (2008). Using Visualization Techniques to Enhance Emergency Management and Decision-Making in Geo-Collaboration, 2nd China-US Workshop on GeoCollaborative Crisis Management, Dec 2008. PDF