Situation awareness in crowdsensing for disease surveillance in crisis situations

Peter Haddawy, Lutz Frommberger, Tomi Kauppinen, Giorgio De Felice, Prae Charkratpahu, Sirawaratt Saengpao, Phanumas Kanchanakitsakul
2015 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development - ICTD '15  
Crowdsensing can provide real time and detailed information about rapidly evolving crisis situations to facilitate rapid response and effective resource allocation. But while challenges such as heterogeneity of data content and quality, asynchronicity, and volume call for robust data integration and interpretation capabilities, situation awareness in crowdsensing for crisis management remains a largely unexplored area of research. In this paper we extend the mobile4D smartphone-based disaster
more » ... porting and alerting system with a situation awareness data interpretation and integration layer and demonstrate its application to the problem of tracking cholera outbreaks. The communication workflow in mobile4D-SA supports interaction between crowdsensed information, system predictions, and multifaceted communication between authorities and affected people on the ground.
doi:10.1145/2737856.2737879 dblp:conf/ictd/HaddawyFKFCSK15 fatcat:rfffnx475nevhcjlqhhzwgzata