Finding family and friends in the aftermath of a disaster using federated queries on social networks and websites

Stiegler, Rene; Tilley, Scott; Parveen, Tauhida

doi:10.1109/wse.2011.6081815

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“…Regardless of the type of emergency, whether a terrorist attack, a hurricane or an earthquake, communication lines may be overloaded and cellular networks overwhelmed as too many people attempt to use them to access information. Severe natural disasters may cause the entire communications grid to blackout, as infrastructure is severely damaged (Stiegler, Tilley, & Parveen, 2011). In some cases the disaster may strike a geographic region that lacks communication infrastructure; but even in places where partial communication infrastructure remains intact, deployment of new systems may be found to be complex (Manoj & Baker, 2007).…”

Section: Loss Of Communicationmentioning

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“…Following a disaster, the public initially seeks the most common and familiar channels; phone calls, emails, or text messages. If unsuccessful, they turn to alternative and/or official sources of information (Stiegler et al, 2011). Mileti & Darlington, 1997 presented that individuals in emergency situations use whatever means available to find information.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Mileti & Darlington, 1997 presented that individuals in emergency situations use whatever means available to find information. People seek information for themselves, to learn about the emergency event, locate their family and friends, and reduce uncertainty regarding what has happened; they will seek any available venue of information including newspapers, television, and the Internet (Boyle et al, 2004;Stiegler et al, 2011;Hughes et al, 2008). Skinner (2013) describes how she as a researcher collects and aggregates information from different sources during emergencies, and publishes it in order to inform those who are affected by the event.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Socializing in emergencies—A review of the use of social media in emergency situations

Simon

Goldberg

Adini

2015

International Journal of Information Management

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a b s t r a c tSocial media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens, researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that occurred globally in the last few years have shown that social media tools may serve as an integral and significant component of crisis response. Communication is one of the fundamental tools of emergency management. It becomes crucial when there are dozens of agencies and organizations responding to a disaster. Regardless of the type of emergency, whether a terrorist attack, a hurricane or an earthquake, communication lines may be overloaded and cellular networks overwhelmed as too many people attempt to use them to access information. Social scientists have presented that post-disaster active public participation was largely altruistic, including activities such as search and rescue, first aid treatment, victim evacuation, and online help. Social media provides opportunities for engaging citizens in the emergency management by both disseminating information to the public and accessing information from them. During emergency events, individuals are exposed to large quantities of information without being aware of their validity or risk of misinformation, but users are usually swift to correct them, thus making the social media "self-regulating".

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Socializing in emergencies—A review of the use of social media in emergency situations

Simon

Goldberg

Adini

2015

International Journal of Information Management

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“…There needs to be a strong, functional relationship between residents and emergency management for effective information sharing. There are times when individuals seek more information and detail from other sources (Stiegler et al, 2011), including through their social ties and communities (Shklovski et al, 2008) or the internet (Abbasi et al, 2010) to reduce anxiety about the welfare of their communities (Shklovski et al, 2008). For instance, people assist others in emergency crises in a reciprocal manner by exchanging up-to-date information and relevant protective actions (Simon et al, 2015).…”

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Understanding emergency response: lessons learned from the helping literature

Whitmer

LaGoy

Sims

2018

IJEM

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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need for collaboration between two areas of research: classical psychological helping behaviours and emergency warnings. A large-scale disaster (i.e., the Chicago Heat Wave) is used throughout the paper as an example in which knowledge of the helping behaviour literature could have assisted emergency responders. The emergency warning literature is reviewed within the context of people heeding the warnings and deciding to share the information with others. Developments in the helping literature are reviewed, along with a final summary of key lessons from this area of experimental research that can help answer questions for future emergency responders. With a better understanding of experimental findings in the area of prosocial behaviours, emergency managers may be better able to assist their communities. Likewise, a greater collaboration between these two fields may lead to more research with the intent of improving emergency response.

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“…An important application eld of social sensing is in helping people to deal with natural disasters. ere are applications that help in nding friends and family in the a ermath of a natural disaster [19]. Furthermore, social media can provide access to relevant and timely information to individuals in a ected regions [17].…”

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The Fog Makes Sense

Mayer

Gupta

Saurez

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing

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Social sensing services use humans as sensor carriers, sensor operators and sensors themselves in order to provide situation-awareness to applications. is promises to provide a multitude of bene ts to the users, for example in the management of natural disasters or in community empowerment. However, current social sensing services depend on Internet connectivity since the services are deployed on central Cloud platforms. In many circumstances, Internet connectivity is constrained, for instance when a natural disaster causes Internet outages or when people do not have Internet access due to economical reasons. In this paper, we propose the emerging Fog Computing infrastructure to become a key-enabler of social sensing services in situations of constrained Internet connectivity. To this end, we develop a generic architecture and API of Fogenabled social sensing services. We exemplify the usage of the proposed social sensing architecture on a number of concrete use cases from two di erent scenarios. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for pro t or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the rst page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permi ed. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior speci c permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. CCS CONCEPTS SOCIAL SENSINGSituation-aware applications use data streams from sensors to provide useful services to users or other applications. With the proliferation of sensors deployed in the surrounding world, e.g., through the Internet of ings, the potential of such applications is reaching new dimensions. Recently, research focus has been expanded from traditional xed sensor deployments toward social sensing [1]. is comprises passive sensors provided by human carriers in Smart Phones, active human sensor operators taking pictures or videos and even humans operating as sensors themselves, e.g., providing live information in tweets and postings. Recently, new applications have been proposed which use the social sensing infrastructure to infer situations that are not detectable from traditional sensors. Application FieldsAn important application eld of social sensing is in helping people to deal with natural disasters. ere are applications that help in nding friends and family in the a ermath of a natural disaster [19]. Furthermore, social media can provide access to relevant and timely information to individuals in a ected regions [17]. Providing real-time information to disaster-a ected people about the situation in the area can help them take mitigative actions, for instance moving contents located in a ood-prone ground oor to upper oor [2] to reduce the loss caused by the disaster. Social media has been an e ective way of sharing this...

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Finding family and friends in the aftermath of a disaster using federated queries on social networks and websites

Cited by 19 publications

References 5 publications

Socializing in emergencies—A review of the use of social media in emergency situations

Socializing in emergencies—A review of the use of social media in emergency situations

Understanding emergency response: lessons learned from the helping literature

The Fog Makes Sense

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