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The Impacts of ICT Support on Information Distribution, Task Assignment for Gaining Teams’ Situational Awareness in Search and Rescue Operations

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Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 425))

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the way we communicate and work. To study the effects of ICT for Information Distribution (ID) and Task Assignment (TA) for gaining Teams’ Situational Awareness (TSA) across and within rescue teams, an indoor fire game was played with students. We used two settings (smartphone-enabled support vs. traditional walkietalkies) to analyze the impact of technology on ID and TA for gaining TSA in a simulated Search and Rescue operation. The results presented in this paper combine observations and quantitative data from a survey conducted after the game. The results indicate that the use of the ICT was good in second scenario than first scenario for ID and TA for gaining TSA. This might be explained as technology is more preferable and effective for information sharing, for gaining TSA and also for clear tasks assignment.

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  1. CIEM, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

    Vimala Nunavath, Jaziar Radianti, Tina Comes & Andreas Prinz

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  1. and Management – Kerala (IIITM-K), Indian Inst. of Information Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

  2. Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

  3. Department of Electrical, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Sri Krishnan

  4. Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

  5. Computer Engineering Department, Vladimir State University, Vladimir Region, Russia

    Sergey Mosin

  6. School of Electrical, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Maode Ma

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Nunavath, V., Radianti, J., Comes, T., Prinz, A. (2016). The Impacts of ICT Support on Information Distribution, Task Assignment for Gaining Teams’ Situational Awareness in Search and Rescue Operations. In: Thampi, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., Krishnan, S., Li, KC., Mosin, S., Ma, M. (eds) Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 425. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28658-7_38

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