Upcoming Event: April 16, 2008
GWU
Homeland Security, Emergency and Risk Management Forum
Title: 911.gov: Community Response
Grids for Disaster Prevention, Response and Recovery
Presenter: Professor Ben Shneiderman, Ph.D., Univ. of
Maryland, Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction
Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
at the University of Maryland
When: Wednesday - April 16, 2008 4:00 - 6:00
PM
Where: GWU Marvin Center, Room 309 (800 21st Street
@ H Street NW, Washington, DC convenient to the
Foggy Bottom Metro Station)
The George Washington University Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management (ICDRM) is proud to announce the Third Homeland Security, Emergency and Risk Management Forum of the 2007 - 2008 academic year on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.
Presentation Description:
The remarkable social connectivity generated by
networking services offers new opportunities for disaster and
emergency prevention, response, and recovery. Innovative
socio-technical systems could be harnessed to strengthen communities
in ways that can prevent some disasters, raise resident awareness of
dangers, and prepare them to cope more effectively. During a crisis
mobile technologies may improve reporting and dissemination of
location-specific information. The greater challenge is to creatively
employ resident-to-resident networking during a crisis and in its
aftermath. Studying these innovative solutions and validating their
effectiveness will require novel research methods.
Brief Bio:
Dr. Ben Shneiderman (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben)
is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director
(1983-2000) of the
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/),
and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University
of Maryland at College Park.
He has
taught previously at the State University of New York and at Indiana
University. He was made a Fellow of the ACM in 1997, elected a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001,
and received the ACM CHI (Computer Human Interaction) Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2001.
Ben is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th ed. 2004) http://www.awl.com/DTUI/ . He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. His move into information visualization helped spawn the successful company Spotfire http://www.spotfire.com/ . He is a technical advisor for the HiveGroup and Groxis. With S Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999).
Additional Information:
Refreshments will be served during the 4:00 - 4:30 PM social period and the forum will commence promptly at 4:30 PM. There is no registration fee for the forum series, however we do request that you RSVP to Sergio De Cosmo, Research Assistant, The GWU Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management. Email to sdecosmo@gwu.edu is preferred, however, please feel free to call with any questions to 202-994-6736.
