A Visual Analytics Multimedia Mobile System for Emergency Response

Author

Luis, Steven ; Fleites, Fausto C. ; Yang, Yimin ; Ha, Hsin-Yu ; Chen, Shu-Ching

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

337

Lastpage

338

Abstract

We present a novel visual analytics system and multimedia enabled mobile application that allows emergency management (EM) personnel access to timely and relevant disaster situation information. The system is able to semantically integrate text-based emergency management disaster situation reports with related disaster imagery taken in the field by EM responders and community residents. In addition, through an intuitive and seamless Apple iPad application, users are able to interact with the system in diverse places and conditions and thus provide a more effective response. The system is demonstrated via its iPad application which aims at providing relevant and actionable information.

Keywords

data analysis; data visualisation; disasters; emergency services; interactive devices; mobile computing; text analysis; user interfaces; Apple iPad application; EM responders; community residents; disaster imagery; emergency management personnel access; text based emergency management disaster situation report; visual analytics multimedia enabled mobile system; Buildings; Databases; Hurricanes; Multimedia communication; Personnel; Semantics; disaster situations; iPad applications; mobile computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia (ISM), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dana Point CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2015-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISM.2011.61

Filename

6123368