DocumentCode :
3171043
Title :
Applications and Trust Issues When Crowdsourcing a Crisis
Author :
Weaver, Alfred C. ; Boyle, Joseph P. ; Besaleva, Liliya I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
fYear :
2012
fDate :
July 30 2012-Aug. 2 2012
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
5
Abstract :
The United States Department of Defense funded a research project at the University of Virginia to increase community resilience after a crisis (e.g., natural disaster, bioterrorism attack). The premise is that the public would be better served if it had access to reliable, near real-time information concerning the "ground truth" (actual observations and pictures) of unfolding events. One way (of many) to collect those reports is through crowdsourcing. By taking advantage of the army of people connected to the internet via both wired and wireless technologies, we can easily gather information that would help a citizen make an informed decision regarding his or her health and welfare (e.g., shelter-in-place vs. flight). The widespread use of smartphones allows people to post geolocated reports and pictures with ease. Disaster management teams would likewise benefit from the input of more observers. On the other hand, the trustworthiness of these reports may be uncertain. For instance, a terrorist group might use crowdsourcing to redirect the community\´s emergency responses to the wrong place. We first explore how a crowdsourcing system might be used to enhance disaster management, and then we investigate three ways to enhance the trust that the citizen places in such a system.
Keywords :
Internet; disasters; emergency services; military computing; security of data; smart phones; Internet; bioterrorism attack; community resilience; crowdsourcing system; disaster management; emergency response; natural disaster; smartphone; trust issue; wireless technology; Disaster management; Educational institutions; Game theory; Machine learning; Mobile communication; Reliability; Smart phones;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2012 21st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1543-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCN.2012.6289256
Filename :
6289256
Link To Document :
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