Constructing Synthetic Social Media Stimuli for an Emergency Preparedness Functional Exercise

Andrew J. Hampton; Shreyansh Bhatt; Alan Smith; Jeremy Brunn; Hemant Purohit; Valerie L. Shalin; John M. Flach; Amit P. Sheth

Constructing Synthetic Social Media Stimuli for an Emergency Preparedness Functional Exercise

Andrew J. Hampton, Shreyansh Bhatt, Alan Smith, Jeremy Brunn, Hemant Purohit, Valerie L. Shalin, John M. Flach, Amit P. Sheth

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This paper details the creation of a massive (over 32,000 messages) artificially constructed ‘Twitter’ microblog stream for a regional emergency preparedness functional exercise. By combining microblog conversion, manual production, and a control set, we created a web-based information stream providing valid, misleading, and irrelevant information to public information officers (PIOs) representing hospitals, fire departments, the local Red Cross, and city and county government officials. Addressing the challenges in constructing this corpus constitutes an important step in providing experimental evidence that complements observational study, necessary for designing effective social media tools for the emergency response setting. Preliminary results in the context of an emergency preparedness exercise suggest how social media can participate in the work practice of a PIO concerning the assessment of the disaster and the dissemination of information within the emergency response organization and to the public.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	181-189
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of the 14th ISCRAM Conference
State	Published - 2017
Event	14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2017 - Albi, France Duration: May 21 2017 → May 24 2017

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Information Systems and Management
Information Systems
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

Disaster response training
Emergency preparedness
Social media
Synthetic microblog corpus

Disciplines

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering

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Hampton, A. J., Bhatt, S., Smith, A., Brunn, J., Purohit, H., Shalin, V. L., Flach, J. M., & Sheth, A. P. (2017). Constructing Synthetic Social Media Stimuli for an Emergency Preparedness Functional Exercise. Proceedings of the 14th ISCRAM Conference, 181-189. https://idl.iscram.org/search.php?sqlQuery=SELECT%20author%2C%20title%2C%20publication%2C%20area%2C%20year%20FROM%20refs%20WHERE%20year%20RLIKE%202017%20ORDER%20BY%20author%2C%20year%20DESC%2C%20publication&client=&formType=sqlSearch&submit=List&viewType=&showQuery=0&showLinks=1&showRows=25&rowOffset=&wrapResults=1&citeOrder=&citeStyle=APA&exportFormat=RIS&exportType=html&exportStylesheet=&citeType=html&headerMsg=

Hampton, AJ, Bhatt, S, Smith, A, Brunn, J, Purohit, H, Shalin, VL , Flach, JM & Sheth, AP 2017, 'Constructing Synthetic Social Media Stimuli for an Emergency Preparedness Functional Exercise', Proceedings of the 14th ISCRAM Conference, pp. 181-189. <https://idl.iscram.org/search.php?sqlQuery=SELECT%20author%2C%20title%2C%20publication%2C%20area%2C%20year%20FROM%20refs%20WHERE%20year%20RLIKE%202017%20ORDER%20BY%20author%2C%20year%20DESC%2C%20publication&client=&formType=sqlSearch&submit=List&viewType=&showQuery=0&showLinks=1&showRows=25&rowOffset=&wrapResults=1&citeOrder=&citeStyle=APA&exportFormat=RIS&exportType=html&exportStylesheet=&citeType=html&headerMsg=>

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