TY - GEN
T1 - Crisis warning signs in mHealth for military veterans
T2 - 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2016
AU - Franco, Zeno
AU - Hooyer, Katinka
AU - Rizia, Rizwana
AU - Patwary, A. B.M.Kowser
AU - Armstrong, Mathew
AU - Semaan, Bryan
AU - Kuziemsky, Craig
AU - Curry, Bob
AU - Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Crises range from global catastrophes to personal disasters. However, systematic inquiry on crises rarely employs a comparative approach to examine commonalities between these seemingly very different events. We argue here that individual psychosocial disasters can inform a broader discussion on crises. Our approach applies general crisis theory to a smartphone based psychosocial support system for US military veterans. We engaged in a process designed to explore how veteran peer-to-peer mentorship can be augmented with IS support to display potential early warning signs as first step toward preventative intervention for high risk behaviors. To gain a better understanding of how military veterans might benefit from such a system, this article focuses on a community collaborative design process. The co-design process used the Small Stories method, allowing important cultural characteristics of to emerge, illuminating considerations in IS design with military veterans, and highlighting how humans think about crisis events at the individual level.
AB - Crises range from global catastrophes to personal disasters. However, systematic inquiry on crises rarely employs a comparative approach to examine commonalities between these seemingly very different events. We argue here that individual psychosocial disasters can inform a broader discussion on crises. Our approach applies general crisis theory to a smartphone based psychosocial support system for US military veterans. We engaged in a process designed to explore how veteran peer-to-peer mentorship can be augmented with IS support to display potential early warning signs as first step toward preventative intervention for high risk behaviors. To gain a better understanding of how military veterans might benefit from such a system, this article focuses on a community collaborative design process. The co-design process used the Small Stories method, allowing important cultural characteristics of to emerge, illuminating considerations in IS design with military veterans, and highlighting how humans think about crisis events at the individual level.
KW - Collaborative design
KW - MHealth
KW - Peer support
KW - Psychological crisis
KW - Veterans
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015734040
T3 - Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference
BT - ISCRAM 2016 Conference Proceedings - 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
A2 - Antunes, Pedro
A2 - Banuls Silvera, Victor Amadeo
A2 - Porto de Albuquerque, Joao
A2 - Moore, Kathleen Ann
A2 - Tapia, Andrea H.
PB - Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Y2 - 22 May 2016 through 25 May 2016
ER -