Designing Multimodal Interactive Dashboard of Disaster Management Systems

Area of Science:

• Disaster Management
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Science

Background:

• Disasters significantly impact societal growth, resources, and economies.
• Effective emergency decision-making and response are crucial globally.
• Existing crisis data efforts focus on collection and classification, neglecting user-friendly presentation.

Purpose of the Study:

• To address the gap in user-friendly multimodal disaster data dashboards.
• To propose usable designs for interactive dashboards presenting multimodal disaster information.
• To enhance human-to-system interactions during emergency response.

Main Methods:

• Investigated social media data and metadata for requirement elicitation.
• Developed interactive multimodal dashboards based on analyzed requirements.
• Conducted a heuristic evaluation with experts to validate dashboard designs.

Main Results:

• Positive feedback received from expert evaluators on the interactive dashboards.
• Demonstrated the usability of multimodal dashboards for presenting complex disaster information.
• The proposed dashboards complement existing data collection and classification methods.

Conclusions:

• Interactive multimodal dashboards offer a usable way to present disaster information.
• This approach supports emergency response personnel with timely and actionable insights.
• The findings contribute to improved prompt responses and mitigation of disaster damage.