HCI factors affecting quality of information in crisis management systems

The design of an efficient indexing system that enhances user access to just-in-time information in crisis management systems offers new and challenging research problems. In investigating the type of information required by crisis managers to manage natural and man-made disasters, it became clear that the HCI factors affecting quality of information made available to the crisis manager affected not only the design of the index architecture but placed additional demands on the design human-computer interface. The paper discusses the HCI factors and presents justification for the design of the interface