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THEMIS is an Intelligent System designed to support Disaster Management in the context of disaster relief operations, contributing to reduce the decision-making burden typical of these stressful operational scenarios, which is exacerbated by the big volumes of information, often affected by uncertainty. The goal of the THEMIS project was to create a distributed system that supports: the disaster scenario information gathering and updating, by reconnaissance and response teams using mobile devices; the disaster managers, through incidents analysis and response priority advice, using desktop devices; the information sharing and the flow of georeferenced data communications between system users concerning response tasking and responders’ and incidents’ status; and the response preparedness through simulations functionalities. Particularly regarding the support to response teams’ actions, the mobile devices offer navigation aids based on maps and augmented reality.
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The work was funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Defense and by the Portuguese Navy.
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Simões-Marques, M., Correia, A., Nunes, I.L. (2020). Design of Disaster Management Intelligent System – A Review of the Applied UCD Methods. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51369-6_13
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