TY - GEN
T1 - Mega-collaboration
T2 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Boundary Spanning Initiatives and New Perspectives, ISCRAM 2009
AU - Newlon, Christine M.
AU - Pfaff, Mark
AU - Patel, Himalaya
AU - De Vreede, Gert Jan
AU - MacDorman, Karl
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The need to gather and use decentralized information and resources in responding to disasters demands an integrated interface that can support large-scale collaboration. This paper describes the development of a collaboration tool interface. The tool will surpass existing groupware and social networking applications, providing easy entry, categorization, and visualization of masses of critical data; the ability to form ad-hoc teams with collaboration protocols for negotiated action; and agent-augmented mixed-initiative tracking and coordination of these activities. The paper reports user testing results concerning the data entry interface, emergent leadership, and the directed negotiation process. The paper also discusses planned enhancements, including formalized collaboration engineering and the use of a disaster simulation test bed.
AB - The need to gather and use decentralized information and resources in responding to disasters demands an integrated interface that can support large-scale collaboration. This paper describes the development of a collaboration tool interface. The tool will surpass existing groupware and social networking applications, providing easy entry, categorization, and visualization of masses of critical data; the ability to form ad-hoc teams with collaboration protocols for negotiated action; and agent-augmented mixed-initiative tracking and coordination of these activities. The paper reports user testing results concerning the data entry interface, emergent leadership, and the directed negotiation process. The paper also discusses planned enhancements, including formalized collaboration engineering and the use of a disaster simulation test bed.
KW - Autonomous agents
KW - Collaboration
KW - Mixed initiative multi-agent system
KW - Thinklets
KW - Virtual teams
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905560876
SN - 9789163346040
T3 - ISCRAM 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Boundary Spanning Initiatives and New Perspectives
BT - ISCRAM 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Y2 - 10 May 2009 through 13 May 2009
ER -