Ongoing Research: Social Media Supporting Emergency Response, Situational Awareness &

Information Warfare

Connie White, PhDIT Faculty Candidate

What if a football game had been going on?

EF4 Hits Hattiesburg, MS

Building Situational Awareness

Building Situational Awareness

UtilitiesDowned lines

Power Outages

Transportation

Damaged Bridges

Roads BlockedFlooded Streets

Communications

Internet DownCellphone

Towers

WaterContamination

No WaterSewage

GasPropane-NaturalLeaks

Explosions

PublicWarningSafety

MedicalShelters

ResponseAmbulances

Medical FacilityLogisticsSupplies

Damage ReportsHouses

BusinessPublic Facility

Problems with Decision Support

911 First Implemented in 1968

When the internet is unreachable... creating local  area clouds to communicate among computers in the area wirelessly and to reach out to an internet connection Natural language analysis to identify probable trustworthiness of tweets Filtering and classifying and graphical display of tweets and other sm to overcome overload Building Dashboards Supporting Decision Support Leveraging hFOSS in the teaching environment

Research Problems

Books Authored and Chapter Contributions

Thank You and I hope to see you in a Faculty

meeting in August 2013!