Groupware: some issues and experiences
Communications of the ACM
A Multiple View Approach to Support Common Ground in Distributed and Synchronous Geo-Collaboration
CMV '05 Proceedings of the Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization
CTS '06 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems
Shared Situational Awareness in Emergency Management Mitigation and Response
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Supporting Community Emergency Management Planning through a Geocollaboration Software Architecture
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A Decision Analysis Framework for Emergency Notification
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Coordination in emergency response management
Communications of the ACM - Web searching in a multilingual world
Information Visualization - Special issue on visual analytics science and technology
Geovisual analytics for spatial decision support: Setting the research agenda
International Journal of Geographical Information Science - Geovisual Analytics for Spatial Decision Support
CIVIL: support geo-collaboration with information visualization
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
A role-based multiple view approach to distributed geo-collaboration
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
Integrating spatial data and decision models in an e-planning tool
CRIWG'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Collaboration and technology
Situation awareness and virtual globes: Applications for disaster management
Computers & Geosciences
eStorys: A visual storyboard system supporting back-channel communication for emergencies
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Supporting common ground and awareness in emergency management planning: A design research project
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
MoCoMapps: mobile collaborative map-based applications
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Map-Mediated geocollaborative crisis management
ISI'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
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Collaborative technologies for information sharing are an invaluable resource for emergency managers to respond to and manage highly dynamic events such as natural disasters and other emergencies. However, many standard collaboration tools can be limited either because they provide passive presentation and dissemination of information, or because they are targeted towards highly specific usage scenarios that require considerable training to use the tools. We present a real-time gather and share system called "Big Board" which facilitates collaboration over maps. The Big Board is an open-source, web based, real time visual collaborative environment that runs on all modern web browsers and uses open-source web standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and WorldWideWeb Consortium (W3C). An evaluation of Big Board was conducted by school representatives in North Carolina for use in situational understanding for school closure decisions during winter weather events. The decision to close schools has major societal impacts and is one that is usually made based on how well a teenage driver could handle wintry precipitation on a road. Collecting information on the conditions of roads is especially critical, however gathering and sharing of this information within a county can be difficult. Participants in the study found the Big Board intuitive and useful for sharing real time information, such as road conditions and temperatures, leading up to and during a winter storm scenario. We have adapted the Big Board to manage risks and hazards during other types of emergencies such as tropical storm conditions.