In this paper, we examine the socio-technical impact that social media has had on
coordination between professional emergency responders and digital volunteers. Drawing …

Using the 2014 Carlton Complex Wildfire as a case study, we examine who contributes
official information online during a crisis event, and the timeliness and relevance of the …

Emergency responders increasingly use social media as a means to monitor public
information, gather information that could be used in response efforts, and communicate …

To this date, research on crisis informatics has focused on the detection of trust in Twitter
data through the use of message structure, sentiment, propagation and author. Little …

Maintaining network connectivity is crucial for multi-robot and human-robot teams. If robots
lose their network connection, they cannot receive commands or share sensor data with …

We report initial findings around the Facebook and Twitter adoption trends of 840 fire and
police departments affected by Hurricane Sandy. The data show that adoption increased …

Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) is the problem of distributing a set of tasks to a team of
robots with the objective of optimising some criteria, such as minimising the amount of time …

In crisis situations like riots, earthquakes, storms, etc. information plays a central role in the
process of organizing interventions and decision making. Due to their increasing use during …

In August of 2020 Northern California experienced a dry lightning storm that ignited
numerous wildfires, including two adjacent to San Jose, California. The SCU and CZU …

This thesis work examines the online communications of 840 fire and police departments
during Hurricane Sandy (2012). Using a mixed methods approach, this research combines …