Call for Papers : Emergency Management in a Mobile World
A Special Session at the
MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES and EXHIBITIONS
? mSOCIETY 2008 ? The 1st International Conference on Mobile Society
? EURO mGOV 2008 ? The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government
15 -19 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey
http://www.mgovernment.org/events/index.html mlife@mgovernment.org
Chairs:
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Thomas Rose, and Gertraud Peinel
Head of research department, and project manager at the Fraunhofer FIT
The domain of emergency management is a specific part of the e- and mGovernment world. The preparation for emergency events ? caused by natural as well as man-made reasons ? has gained increasing attention from the research community due to the potential impact of such events.
In case of major disaster, radio and television might give first hints of what to do and what to avoid but this is rarely done in coordination with the local emergency managers. Therefore, further details for the specific region of interest as well as for the specific situation characteristics (including event information like occurrence place and time, estimated duration, subjects affected, possible conditions ? technical or other ? for its finalisation) are not available.
Goals of this special session are therefore to
-establish the realms of emergency management as a specific topic of interest at this conference.
- discuss socio-technical methodologies for the development and
deployment of IT solutions for emergency management tasks with a
particular account on mobile technologies, e.g. mobility of citizens as
well as rescue teams.
- elaborate the impact of mobile technologies on the emergency management life-cycle.
- discuss the role and their potential contributions of business
partners to emergencies: capacities for communication channels,
information relay centres, ad hoc call centres, and business models.
- relate country-specific organisational and legal frameworks, e.g. cross border procedures.
- tie relationships among research on mGovernment and crisis
management: detect common problems and solutions, identify needs of
actions, and show how IT solutions and new business models can
restructure also the way of emergency management.
Topics for Submission include but are not limited to
- Emergency Management in a Mobile World: challenges, barriers, and opportunities
- Business models, public private partnerships
-Characteristics of mobile emergency services (e.g., reach, costs, acceptance, complexity, side-effects)
- Best practices and lessons learnt
- Planning methodologies for emergency preparation
Expected audience: Authorities, risk experts, and e/mGovernment scientists
Submissions
in the form of research papers (max 10 pages) and practice talks (max 1
page) are solicited via the conferences online submission system at the
http://www.mgovernment.org/confadmin/confadmin.php
Further information on submissions and all about the conference can be found at
http://www.mgovernment.org/events/mgov2008/home.html
For all enquiries, please write to the session chairs: thomas.rose@fit.fraunhofer.de, gertraud.peinel@fit.fraunhofer.de or the conference secreteriat mlife@mgovernment.org
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Wednesday October 01, 2008Rich Jenkins opens a child?s picture book and aims a camera phone at a page depicting a cartoon panda bear that is gesturing toward a set of Chinese characters. As Jenkins and I view the page through the cell phone screen, the printed panda suddenly erupts into a 3-D video version that points at the first symbol, pronounces it in Mandarin and then defines it in English.
Jenkins, who leads Media Power, a New York City?based firm that develops mobile communications applications, smiles at my rather startled reaction. ?A software application that we?ve downloaded into this phone reads cues that the book designers have embedded into the graphics,? he explains. ?It then calls up the video segment appropriate for that page from the network server. The result is like a pop-up book on steroids.? Jenkins notes that this new kind of animated content could help kids learn and that these ?magic books? could become available by the end of this year. The company will also be introducing cell phone?enabled museum exhibit tours based on the same technology, as well as the means by which consumers can trigger delivery of targeted advertising by directing camera phones at brand logos.
More: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=digitally-augmented-reality
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