... and communication technology-driven developments like crowdsourcing or social networks have opened up new organizational possibilities for emergency managers. To make quick but solid decisions, and improve the coordination of activities performed by crowdsourcees during disaster response, the authors suggest...

...Yuhki Shiraishi; Jianwei Zhang; Daisuke Wakatsuki; Katsumi Kumai; Atsuyuki Morishima Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues on how to achieve crowdsourced real-time captioning of sign language by deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people, such that how a system structure should...

... the observations made by the crowd as function of time. Multimedia capturing Observation Annotation Crowdsourcing Ontology Interactive map Visualization Event Path Mobile multimedia We believe that several scientific fields (biodiversity, biology, agriculture, etc.) would greatly benefit...