Disaster Management Initiative 1st Annual Workshop

Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, the CyLab Mobility Research Center and the Disaster Management Initiative Partners held a one-day invitational workshop on Disaster Response and Emergency Services, Friday, March 26, 2010. The workshop was held on campus at the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field, and focused on the role of new device, communication and collaboration technologies and approaches in the domain of disaster response and emergency services. The recent California earthquakes and fires and the disasters in Haiti and Chile are reminders that we need to work together.

Events Wrap-Up

Read a brief summary on the DMI and CrisisCamp events!
Check out blog posts
- CyBlog post
- CalEMA News Spot
Read the Press Releases

Event Photos

Watch the Workshop Sessions

Morning session 7:30-11:30

Afternoon Session, 12:30-2:15
- 12:30-12:50 - Talk: Next Generation Emergency Operation Center - Bob Dolci, NASA Ames DART
- 12:50-1:10 - Talk: Open Technology Approaches for Enhancing the Common Operating Picture - Xavier Irias, EBMUD
- 1:10-2:00 - Panel: DMI Partners and Key Participants - Moderator: Martin Griss, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
- 2:00-2:15 - Breakout Goals and Process - Steve R. Ray, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Afternoon Session, 3:45 – End
- 3:45-4:30 - Summary of Breakout Recommendations
- 4:30-5:30 - Wrap up

Organizers & Participants

Contacts

Please email the organizers, Martin Griss and Wendy Fong at disaster@sv.cmu.edu for more information.

Participants

120 people attended. Participant list (.pdf).

Goals

The goals of the workshop were to identify a mutually beneficial research agenda, catalyze 3-4 of the most promising and synergistic projects, make our research interests and organizations more visible in the community, and to establish new collaborations. Workshop participants exchanged information on the state-of-the-art in their organizations and came away with ideas and connections that enriched their work.

The workshop was held at our campus the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field (~Mountain View) on Friday, March 26, 2010 from 8:30am - 7:00pm.

The workshop ended with a reception including refreshments, demos and posters from 5:30pm-7:00pm on Friday, March 26th. The workshop was followed by a companion two-day CrisisCampSiliconValley, run in barcamp style.

Agenda

Agenda:

7:30-8:30 - Breakfast, Registration and Networking
8:30-9:00 - Welcome, Goals of workshop, DMI overview and process (.pdf)
- Martin Griss, Director, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
  - Letter of Support from Rep. Michael Honda (.pdf)
- Jac Siegel, Vice Mayor, City of Mountain View
- S. Pete Worden, NASA Ames Research Center Director
9:00-9:45 - Keynote: Matthew Bettenhausen, Secretary of California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA)
9:45-10:00 - BREAK
10:00-10:45 - Panel: Emergency Comms 2.0, The KEY to Emergency Management
- Moderators: Pat Lanthier & Charles Brown, WCA eCLIC
10:45-11:30 - Panel: Devices and Applications
- Moderator: Terry Fong, NASA Ames, IRG
11:30-12:30 - LUNCH
12:30-12:50 - Talk: Next Generation Emergency Operation Center
- Bob Dolci, NASA Ames DART
12:50-1:10 - Talk: Open Technology Approaches for Enhancing the Common Operating Picture
- Xavier Irias, EBMUD
1:10-2:00 - Panel: DMI Partners and Key Participants
- Moderator: Martin Griss, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
2:00-2:15 - Breakout Goals and Process (.pdf)
- Steve R. Ray, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
2:15-2:30 - BREAK
2:30-3:30 - Parallel Breakout Sessions (see below)
3:30-3:45 - BREAK
3:45-4:30 - Summary of Breakout Recommendations
4:30-5:30 - Wrap up (.pdf)
5:30-7:00 - RECEPTION
- posters
- demos
- launch CrisisCampSiliconValley

Breakout Sessions

Process and roles

Each breakout had at least a designated Facilitator, Scribe and Rapporteur
Facilitator kept discussion focused on key questions and deliverables
Scribe captured important details of deliberations
Rapporteur created and presented the 5 min overview

Key questions to be addressed by each breakout

What are opportunities to leverage new technologies and approaches in your area?
What are the technical and organizational challenges?
What are the top 3 short term synergistic activities we should commit to do, and how to proceed?
Where can we find the needed money to address these activities?
What are the Interoperability and System Integration implications and issues?
Optional: Sketch the longer term roadmap of proposed actions and research

Deliverables from each breakout

5-6 min summary of key results, address above questions - using a supplied slide template (by Presenter)
Most important: What are 3 most useful things we can and should do
More detailed notes from each breaout will be placed on this web site

Position Papers

The one-page position papers were optional, but highly recommended to help shape the final agenda. Position papers are posted on the website for all participants. Position papers also recommended specific breakout groups, or ideas that were carried forward to CrisisCampSiliconValley.

Template (.pdf) for the optional position paper.

The following entries, marked with a * were accepted position papers or proposals for a Mobile Broadband 4G Crisis application. Winners won a free 4G WiMAX USB modem w/ Innovation Network service and an exclusive T-Shirt from Clearwire.

*Jonathan Becker, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - Collaborating with Amateur Radio Emergency Communication Organizations. (.pdf)
Luke Beckman, inSTEDD - WATCHFIRE: Neighborhood Watch 2.0 (.pdf)
*Andrew Brown, SCEWN - Santa Clara Emergency Wireless Network (SCEWN) (Google Doc)
*Charles Brown, Flying Circuit Inc. - First Responder Radio Internet (.pdf)
Richard Davies, Western Disaster Center - California Earthquake Clearinghouse Reconnaissance Response (.pdf)
Richard Davies, Western Disaster Center - Towards a Level 3 HAZUS-MH Assessment (.pdf)
*Gilles de Bordeaux - Individual Emergency Report (.pdf)
*Shekhar Deo, Kumaril Bhattacharya, Vineet Nair, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - SoS-Connection (.pdf)
*Kenneth S. Dueker, Palo Alto Police Department - Community Disaster Network (CDN), A Wireless Network for Disaster Response and Recovery (.pdf)
*Hong Guo, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - Leveraging WiMAX Technology for Real-Time Medical Information Exchange and Emergency Awareness (.pdf)
Dan Holley & Bruce Lee, Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network - Disaster Resiliency Center (.pdf)
- [Slides on the Disaster Resiliancy Center Project (.pdf)]
William Hreha, Space Systems/Loral - Satellites Systems and Emergency Response (.pdf)
Vamsee Kandimalla, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - Human Computer Interaction and their involvement with location based service applications (.pdf)
Peter Ohtaki, California Resiliency Alliance - Philosophical Differences in Information Access: Command and Control Versus Social Media (.pdf)
David Oppenheimer, USGS Northern CA Seismic Network - Earthquake Early Warning system (EEW) (.pdf)
*Steven Rosenberg, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - Collaboration Environments for Emergency Response (.pdf)
Trey Smith, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA - Electronic forums to speed information flow between professionals and citizen responders (.pdf)
*Melanie Swan - Disaster TeleDiagnosis (.pdf) - Clearwire Award Finalist
- Melanie Swan & Hong Guo - Crisis Telediagnosis –Emergency Response (.pdf) (also note their blog: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/)
*Alex Waibel & Joy Zhang, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - Real-Time Conference Translation (.pdf) - Clearwire Mobile Innovation Contest (winner of dongle & t-shirt)
Kai-Hsiang Yang & Yu-Cheng Huang, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - Emergency Data Dissemination in Vehicular Networks using WiMAX (.pdf)
*Albert Young - Wildfire Crisis Control – 4G and Smart Grid (.pdf)

Posters

This is a draft list of proposed posters to be shown at the reception:

Collaborative Context-aware Sensing (HengTze Cheng)
Overseer: A Mobile Context-Aware Collaboration and Task Management System for Disaster Response (Faisal Luqman)
Common Operating Picture (David Coggeshall)
WiMAX (Jonathan Becker)
iBurgh (Priya Narasimhan)
MobileEssence (John Yu, Ted Selker)
NASA airborne platforms and instruments for disaster response (Matthew Fladeland)
Community Disaster Network (Ken Dueker)
USGS Earthquake Early Warnings System (David Oppenheimer)
*Hermes: a toolkit for context-aware applications for disaster response (Senaka Buthpitiya) - Clearwire Award Finalist
- poster (.pdf); paper (.pdf)

Demos

This is a list of demos shown during the reception:

CalEMA MIG-U

CalEMA - 2 Vans (MIG-U)
CA Post Earthquake Information Clearinghouse project and the WDC non-profit - PDA data collection - (Rich Davies)
CA Post Earthquake Information Clearinghouse project and the WDC non-profit - Draganflyer - (Mark Bateson)
CiviGuard - video (Shawna Pandya)
Cisco NERV - Van
IPS van
Marconi
MobileEssence (Ted Selker, John Yu)
NASA Ames - GeoCAM (Trey Smith)
NASA Ames DART comm. vans (Bob Dolci)
Red Cross - comm. vans
SunTactics (Gary Hethcoat)
SensorFly - Mobile sensor platform (Pei Zhang, Aveek Purohit)
TWiki, Inc. - Agile enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform - DMI Innovator Award
- Peter Theony 'Structured Wikis at Work - Enterprise 2.0 in Action' (.pdf)