Moving Towards Crowd Tasking for Disaster Mitigation

1. Introduction
Moving Towards Crowd Tasking
for Disaster Mitigation
Daniel Auferbauer (presenting)
daniel.auferbauer@tuwien.ac.at
Roman Ganhör
roman.ganhoer@tuwien.ac.at
Hilda Tellio˘glu
hilda.tellioglu@tuwien.ac.at
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2. Introduction
Agenda
Crowd tasking (in Austria)
Introducing a new approach
Discussion of differences
Outlook on future work
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3. Status Quo
Defining "Crowd Tasking"
A specialised form of crowd sourcing, distributing specific, well
defined tasks to deliberately selected volunteers
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4. Status Quo
Team Österreich
Community effort for disaster mitigation
Organised by the Austrian Red Cross
Endorsed by nationwide media
Closely governed and supervised
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5. Status Quo
Procedure
Signing up
Mobilisation requests
Briefing
Splitting up, travel
Field work
De-briefing, return
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6. New Approach
RE-ACTA
Utilising smartphone capabilities
Fast sign-up and mobilisation
Specific tasks and target audience
Loose binding of volunteers
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7. New Approach
Procedure
Signing up
Mobilisation requests
Task requests based on location, skills
Execution
Repeat until no more tasks are available
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8. Discussion
Differences
Volunteer involvement:
user involvement, supervision and types of assignments
Lower entry barriers:
a result of more loose involvement
Information formalisation:
well defined tasks, no two way communication
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9. Discussion
Consequences
Rapid information acquisition
Fast mobilisation
Automated processing
Big outreach
Low entry barriers
Easy participation
Rigid structure
No spontaneous contribution
No support for cooperation
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10. Closure
Future Work
Further evaluation of new concept
Improving the implementation
Observing utilisation in the field
Adressing communication and cooperation
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11. Closure
Thank you for your attention!
Any questions?
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