Which Factors Govern the Use of Emergency Response Information Systems? Insights from an Ethnographical Study of a Voluntary Fire Department

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dc.contributor.authorWeidinger, Julian
dc.contributor.authorSchlauderer, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorOverhage, Sven
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T17:40:37Z
dc.date.available2021-12-24T17:40:37Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.description.abstractTo realize the digitalization potential of emergency response processes, several information technologies have been proposed that shall support firefighters in their operations. In the incident command process, especially emergency response information systems (ERIS) are supposed to raise the situation awareness and overall efficacy. Despite their theoretical potential, these technologies only slowly disseminate in practice, however. While extant acceptance models can basically explain firefighters’ intention to use them, the actual usage so far remained unexplored. To gain an in-depth understanding of the specific domain and its influence on the usage of technologies, we ethnographically observed a voluntary fire department over several years. During its digitalization of command processes, we identified operational specialties like flexibility, organizational requirements like error culture, and social aspects like perceived importance that influence the introduction of an ERIS. These factors shall enrich existing acceptance models and help to better consider the special characteristics of the firefighter domain.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2022.312
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/79645
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDisaster Information, Resilience, for Emergency and Crisis Technologies
dc.subjectemergency management
dc.subjectethnography
dc.subjectfirefighter information technologies
dc.subjectincident command
dc.subjectprocess digitalization
dc.titleWhich Factors Govern the Use of Emergency Response Information Systems? Insights from an Ethnographical Study of a Voluntary Fire Department
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