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According to statistics, by 2020, the number of people with low vision worldwide had exceeded 1 billion, and this number is still rising. This shows that people with low vision have become an important group that cannot be ignored in today's ...

In the event of a disaster, many people post a lot of information on SNS that promotes or inhibits action we designate this information "behavioral facilitation information". Such information is likely to have various effects on user behavior. A wide ...

Multimodal tasks require learning a joint representation of the constituent modalities of data. Contrastive learning learns a joint representation by using a contrastive loss. For example, CLIP takes as input image-caption pairs and is trained to ...

This paper focuses on identifying possible approaches to harmonising technological solutions, operative procedures, preparedness and cross-sectorial collaboration in the case of cross-border Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI). It presents some of the results ...

Human mobility nowcasting is a fundamental research problem for intelligent transportation planning, disaster responses and management, etc. In particular, human mobility under big disasters such as hurricanes and pandemics deviates from its daily ...

Understanding what people need during disasters and how many people are exposed to disasters are critical in effective disaster management especially in urban megacities where high population density poses greater disaster risk. More importantly, ...

A well-planned evacuation route can help to prevent traffic congestion and reduce the time required for evacuation; however, many existing evacuation route-planning solutions based on real-time traffic conditions fail to consider the degree to which ...

During times of disaster, experts can use social media platforms to locate data, validate information, and share community knowledge. Situating our research within a current global crisis, the Russia-Ukraine War, we examine the symbolic-analytic work of ...

Occurrences of catastrophes such as natural or man-made disasters trigger the spread of rumours over social media at a rapid pace. Presenting a trustworthy and summarized account of the unfolding event in near real-time to the consumers of such ...

Sudden increase in service requests immediately after an occurrence of a disaster due to the scarcity of resources creates congestion in service. Effective queue management should ensure that the services are available for every request with an acceptable ...

Microblogging sites such as Twitter play an important role in dealing with various mass emergencies including natural disasters and pandemics. The FIRE2021 track on Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis) focused on two ...

Risk perception is considered important in disaster risk management and is recommended to be done as longitudinal studies. Social media could play an essential part in understanding how people perceive disaster. However, attaining the dataset from ...

Disaster projection problem is a variation of vehicle routing problem. Compared with the classical vehicle routing problem, its constraints are more complex and modeling is difficult. And the solution space is larger due to the elimination of the ...

Loneliness threatens public mental wellbeing during COVID-19. In response, YouTube creators participated in the #StayHome #WithMe movement (SHWM) and made myriad videos for people experiencing loneliness or boredom at home. User-shared videos generate ...

Research on information technology adoption and use is definitely not new. However, while several models have aimed at explaining adoption and use of technology by individuals and organizations, very few of them have explicitly taken into account the ...

Background. The significance of mutual-help in communities for disaster management is a fundamental important concept. However, the current societal state does not reflect this lesson. S&G (Simulation and Gaming) has the potential to overcome the ...

High-impact catastrophic events (bomb attacks, shootings) trigger posting of large volume of information on social media platforms such as Twitter. Recent works have proposed content-aware systems for summarizing this information, thereby facilitating ...

Disasters are constantly affecting Asia. To minimize the damage, it is important to have an immediate and effective response, which requires multiple stakeholders of the disaster scenarios to communicate. After identifying stakeholders and their needs ...

Microblogging sites are increasingly playing an important role in real-time disaster management. However, rumors and fake news often spread on such platforms, which if not detected, can derail the rescue operations. Therefore, it becomes imperative to ...

This paper explores the characteristics of three established rumor propagation features i.e. temporal, structural and linguistic for collected tweets in a natural disaster i.e. Chennai Flood, 2015. The consequences of the features and the rationale ...