Design and Prototyping of a Community Response Grid (CRG) for a University Campus

Author

Qu, Yan ; Wu, Philip Fei ; Mahindrakar, Samantha

Author_Institution

Univ. of Maryland, MD

fYear

2009

fDate

16-19 March 2009

Firstpage

772

Lastpage

777

Abstract

Pervasive and networked information and communication technology (ICT) has expanded the possibility for community participation in disaster response. This article describes the design and prototyping of a community-based emergency response system for a university campus. The main purposes of the system are to provide both top-down and bottom-up communication channels for information dissemination and gathering, and to facilitate peer-to-peer help within the community. Key design issues and challenges are discussed.

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; educational computing; emergency services; information dissemination; ubiquitous computing; community participation; community response grid; community-based emergency response; disaster response; information dissemination; information gathering; networked information and communication technology; pervasive information and communication technology; university campus; Communication channels; Communications technology; Competitive intelligence; Educational institutions; Intelligent networks; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Prototypes; Safety; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2009. CISIS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3569-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3575-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISIS.2009.205

Filename

5066876