Emergent uses of Accessibility and Social Media for Emergencies

Speaker
Alessio Malizia
Associate Professor, University Carlos III of Madrid

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

In this seminar, I will talk about specific characteristics of Interaction and Accessibility for Emergency Management Information Systems (EMIS). First, I will describe an ontology we have developed for codifying a knowledge base of different abilities to react to different kind of alarms/emergencies and that has been built by investigating different online communities, including elderly people, people with disabilities and experts working in accessibility.

Secondly, I will talk about the use of social networks and web mashups for EMIS, including flexible model processes and visual notations.

Speaker's Bio

Dr. Alessio Malizia. Degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy (Thesis title: a Cooperative-Relational Approach to Digital Library Environments). He is currently with the DEI group holding a Associate Professor Position at the University Carlos III of Madrid. From February 2003 to February 2007, he was a Research Fellow at the Computer Science Department of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. In the past his research activities focused on theory and algorithms for pattern recognition, machine learning and visualization. From 1999 to 2002 he worked for the Rome IBM Tivoli Laboratory, Silicon Graphics and the Reply group. During the Summer 2003, he has spent three months for an internship at the XEROX PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA) in the ISTL (Information Science and Technology) Lab working in Human Document Interaction and after he has hold a Visiting Researcher contract within the same group for one year. Today he is working on Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design and Social Networks. Moreover, he co-organized the “HCI for emergencies” workshop at CHI 2008 conference and a special session with the same name in the ISCRAM 2008/2009 conference.

Host
Brad Myers