Introduction

Moving Towards Crowd Taskingfor Disaster Mitigation

Daniel Auferbauer (presenting)daniel.auferbauer@tuwien.ac.at

Roman Ganhörroman.ganhoer@tuwien.ac.at

Hilda Telliogluhilda.tellioglu@tuwien.ac.at

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Introduction

Agenda

I Crowd tasking (in Austria)

I Introducing a new approach

I Discussion of differences

I Outlook on future work

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Status Quo

Defining "Crowd Tasking"A specialised form of crowd sourcing, distributing specific, welldefined tasks to deliberately selected volunteers

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Status Quo

Team ÖsterreichI Community effort for disaster mitigation

I Organised by the Austrian Red Cross

I Endorsed by nationwide media

I Closely governed and supervised

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Status Quo

ProcedureI Signing up

I Mobilisation requests

I Briefing

I Splitting up, travel

I Field work

I De-briefing, return

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New Approach

RE-ACTAI Utilising smartphone capabilities

I Fast sign-up and mobilisation

I Specific tasks and target audience

I Loose binding of volunteers

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New Approach

ProcedureI Signing up

I Mobilisation requests

I Task requests based on location, skills

I Execution

I Repeat until no more tasks are available

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Discussion

DifferencesI Volunteer involvement:

user involvement, supervision and types of assignments

I Lower entry barriers:a result of more loose involvement

I Information formalisation:well defined tasks, no two way communication

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Discussion

Consequences

I Rapid information acquisitionI Fast mobilisationI Automated processing

I Big outreachI Low entry barriersI Easy participation

I Rigid structureI No spontaneous contributionI No support for cooperation

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Closure

Future WorkI Further evaluation of new concept

I Improving the implementation

I Observing utilisation in the field

I Adressing communication and cooperation

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Closure

Thank you for your attention!Any questions?

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