[CAP] Warning, Information and Engagement papers sought for ISCRAM '06

[Art Botterell]

The deadline for submitting papers for this year's Information  
Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM conference,) in  
Newark, NJ on May 15-17 has been extended until January 23rd.  In  
particular, I'd like to encourage papers of up to 5000 words on the  
topic of:

Public Warning, Information, and Engagement

Chair:  Art Botterell, acb at incident.com

Papers are invited that deal with any aspect of the design,  
development, deployment, operation, or evaluation of information  
systems for public warning, emergency public information and public  
collaborative media in emergencies.  Authors should focus on citizen  
situational awareness, input and approval of warning messages,  
coordination of multiple warning systems, warning to non-English  
speaking populations and to people with sensory disabilities, follow- 
on emergency public information, and participatory media.

We are particularly interested in new and challenging approaches to  
support for alerting, informing, and reassuring the public, and for  
allowing the public to assist in meeting their own information needs.

Indicative topics of interest are:

     * Public warning systems
     * Public reporting and did you feel it? systems
     * Blogs, Wikis and wireless messaging in emergencies
     * Community awareness systems
     * Common Alerting Protocol
     * Warning system controls
     * Sensors and real-time metrics

Papers may be submitted for review to <iscram06 at njit.edu> using the  
template available at <http://web.njit.edu/~turoff/ISCRAM06/ 
PaperTemplateISCRAM2006mt.doc>

Overall, this looks like it's going to be an exciting and worthwhile  
conference: <http://web.njit.edu/~turoff/ISCRAM06/CallForPaper.htm>.

Hope to see you there!

- Art