Towards Real-time Emergency Response using Crowd Supported Analysis of Social Media
Jakob Rogstadius, Vassilis Kostakos, Jim Laredo, Maja Vuković · 2011
This position paper outlines an ongoing research project that aims to incorporate crowdsourcing as part of an emergency response system. The proposed system's novelty is that it integrates crowdsourcing into its architecture to analyze and structure social media content posted by microbloggers and service users, including emergency response coordinators and victims, during the event or disaster. An important challenge in this approach is identifying appropriate tasks to crowdsource, and adopting effective motivation strategies. Author Keywords Emergency response, social media, crowdsourcing, text mining. ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI):