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Understanding distributed collaboration in emergency animal disease response

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OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7

Pages 65 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/1738826.1738838

Published: 23 November 2009 Publication History

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There is an increasing interest in CSCW systems for supporting emergency and crisis management. In this paper we explore work practices in emergency animal disease management focusing on the high-level analysis and decision making of the Australian Consultative Committee for Emergency Animal Disease (CCEAD) - a geographically distributed committee established to recommend action plans during animal disease outbreak. Our findings explore the ways in which they currently share and analyse information together, focusing in particular on their teleconferencing mediated meetings. Our findings highlight factors relating to the time pressure of the task, diverse configuration of the group and asymmetrical settings and how these influence the groups information sharing and communication. We use the findings to discuss implications for collaboration technologies that could support the group and broader implications for similarly structured work groups.

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Li JZic J(2019)A Collaboratory for the Distributed Collaborations Within a Biosecurity Laboratory and Across Different OrganizationsInternational Journal of Cooperative Information Systems10.1142/S021884301950005928:02(1950005)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218843019500059
Li JZic JOakes NLiu DWang C(2016)Design and Evaluation of an Integrated Collaboration Platform for Secure Information SharingCooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering10.1007/978-3-319-46771-9_25(185-193)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46771-9_25
Ley BLudwig TPipek VRandall DReuter CWiedenhoefer T(2014)Information and Expertise Sharing in Inter-Organizational Crisis ManagementComputer Supported Cooperative Work10.1007/s10606-014-9205-223:4-6(347-387)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10606-014-9205-2

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OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7

November 2009

445 pages

ISBN:9781605588544

DOI:10.1145/1738826

Conference Chair:
Marcus Foth
Queensland University of Technology
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Aalborg University
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Li JZic J(2019)A Collaboratory for the Distributed Collaborations Within a Biosecurity Laboratory and Across Different OrganizationsInternational Journal of Cooperative Information Systems10.1142/S021884301950005928:02(1950005)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218843019500059
Li JZic JOakes NLiu DWang C(2016)Design and Evaluation of an Integrated Collaboration Platform for Secure Information SharingCooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering10.1007/978-3-319-46771-9_25(185-193)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46771-9_25
Ley BLudwig TPipek VRandall DReuter CWiedenhoefer T(2014)Information and Expertise Sharing in Inter-Organizational Crisis ManagementComputer Supported Cooperative Work10.1007/s10606-014-9205-223:4-6(347-387)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10606-014-9205-2

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