Psychological Effects of Disaster Relief Activities on Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Personnel Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. | Summary
Subjects were JGSDF personnel who were dispatched from the northern Kyushu district—an unaffected region—for disaster relief activities in the Minamisanriku town, Miyagi prefectures.A total of 606 personnel took part in our study.Most of the subjects were not directly affected by the disaster; however, the families of two participants were directly affected. |
Detection of undesirable communication patterns in multi-agent systems | Summary
Empirical case studies involving human actors interacting with the MAS: A customer agent needs to locate a suitable agent to perform a service on its behalf, and once located, it has to ask for it. Crisis management case study described by: García-Magariño et al. (2009) |
An expert system for an emergency response management in Networked Safe Service Systems | Summary
three CI systems: one chemical plant, three hospitals, and a city transportation system. |
Traffic evacuation simulation based on multi-level driving decision model. | Summary
The plan was to present a formal model of agent-based driving behavior using multi-level decision process that reuses and flexibly combines existing behavior models, including evacuee’s decisions, route choices, and traffic flow models. Driving variability of each agent is modeled through different decisions making perspectives from each layer. No deviations reported. |
Testing a methodology to improve organizational learning about crisis communication by public organizations. | Summary
Pre-tests for clarity and appropriateness with Individual assessment and group discussion, tests for usability with Case analysis, Preparedness audit, Evaluation of simulation exercise- table-top format was used and in addition a game centre with actors was arranged to provide realistic input and simulate the activities of journalists and citizens |
Using Twitter in crisis management for organizations bearing different country-of-origin perceptions. | Summary
The three-stage approach including pre-crisis, crisis, and post-crisis is most commonly used to separate the events surrounding a crisis (Coombs, 2007). The crisis phase includes the trigger event, during which organizations try to limit the damage.France. Each participant was then randomly directed to read one news release or one Twitter page regarding a Chinese or French company in a coffeemaker explosion crisis, a fictional case specifically designed for this study to avoid potential confounding effects of pre-existing knowledge of the organization |
Challenges in coordination: differences in perception of civil and military organizations by comparing international scientific literature and field experiences. | Summary
- systematic literature review using the Scopus database- filtering process after the retrieval of resources were inspired by PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, a systematic way of reporting scientific literature)12 semi-structured interviews were carriedThe interviewees had taken part in international disaster response operations providing either humanitarian assistance following natural disasters or in peacekeeping operations in a disaster setting, involving civil–military coordinationHalf of the interviewees worked for the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), which is the largest Swedish civil responder to disasters |
Towards the development of a decision support system for multi-agency decision-making during cross-border emergencies. | Summary
- design and develop emergency scenarios that reflect realistic threatsand are representative of different categories of threats (natural, deliberate, accidental, and technological) |
Relationships Between Mental Health Distress and Work-Related Factors Among Prefectural Public Servants Two Months After the Great East Japan Earthquake. | Summary
Two months after the earthquake, Miyagi prefecture conducted a self-administered health survey of prefectural public servants |
Examining the Role of Social Media in Effective Crisis Management: The Effects of Crisis Origin, Information Form, and Source on Publics’ Crisis Responses. | Summary
For stimuli development:Online questionnaire to select students for in-depth, in-person interviewsFirst interview about experience of crisis situations and how they use mediaThis study tests essential components of the SMCC model through a 3 (crisis information form) x 2 (crisis information source) x 2 (crisis origin) mixed-design experiment (N = 338). |
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