Mini Documentary on our Work with Rescue Global

Mini Documentary on our Work with Rescue Global
We have made a short documentary on our collaboration with Rescue Global, a disaster response charity from London, thanks to the support by filmmaker Raj. The film shows the process of us researchers from the EPSRC-funded ORCHID project doing ethnographic fieldwork, and developing technologies to support Rescue Global’s planning work. The result is the Augmented Bird Table (ABT), a ...

Best Paper Award at AAMAS ’15 for Disaster Management System Paper

Our paper has been awarded the Best Paper Award of the Innovative Applications track at AAMAS. Download the PDF here.

Building a Birds Eye View – CHI 2015 paper and videos

We have a publication at CHI 2015 entitled Building a Birds Eye View: Collaborative Work in Disaster Response (click to download the PDF). This paper reports an ethnomethodological study of disaster response mission planning of Rescue Global.

Two new publications on team coordination in AtomicOrchid

We have two recently accepted publications on our work investigating team coordination through a mixed-reality game probe. AtomicOrchid has become somewhat of a key research platform in ORCHID to trial Agent-based technologies in a real-world setting, involving people in the role of field responders and HQ coordinators. Here is a short video about AtomicOrchid: The ...

SciDevNet covers ORCHID disaster response reserach

SciDevNet has a piece on our ORCHID research entitled “Artificial intelligence to help disaster aid coordination”.

New Scientist reports on our research

New Scientist reports on our research
Our research recently received some media coverage. The New Scientist has written an article “Smart software uses drones to plot disaster relief” on the ORCHID project’s disaster response work.

Human-Agent Collectives in Disaster Response

Human-Agent Collectives in Disaster Response
For the ORCHID project, I was fortunate enough to coordinate the production of a film that showcases the Disaster Response research activities in the project. This film project involved more than getting a bunch of people into a room to talk about their research in front of a high quality camera, it involved fleshing out the conceptual ...