AOC: Improvisation in Emergency Response: Linking Cognition, Behavior and Social Interaction

AOC：紧急响应中的即兴发挥：将认知、行为和社交互动联系起来

• 批准号: 0624257
• 负责人: David Mendonca
• 金额: $ 71万
• 依托单位: New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0624257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AOC; Improvisation; Emergency; Response; Linking

AOC: Improvisation in Emergency Response:Linking Cognition, Behavior and Social InteractionLarge-scale disasters--whether induced by human, technological, or natural causes--require society to plan for and respond to substantial disruption. As agents of sometimes profound change, disasters require integrated planning and response at multiple levels: at the social level, their complexity requires coordination through communication; at the behavioral level, time pressure creates the need for rapid decision making about response activities; at the cognitive level, uncertainty and rarity require creative thinking. Historical experience has demonstrated the importance of improvisation--serial creativity executed under time constraint--in responding to disasters, and how skill in improvising may complement skill in plan following. Improvisation is often conceptualized as the joint product of cognition, behavior, and social interaction. This project constitutes the first large-scale study to investigate improvisation at the nexus of cognitive, behavioral, and social phenomena in emergency response. The three main goals of this work are expected to lead to improved scientific understanding of improvisation in emergency response, thereby informing educational and policy initiatives to improve how society plans for, responds to, and learns from disasters. The first goal is to explain the cognitive, behavioral and social dynamics of improvisation in emergency response. This will be accomplished through an integrated multi-disciplinary analysis of data from two important U.S. disasters: the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK (OKC); and the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, NY (WTC). To provide continuity with prior studies, research questions are first developed for the individual phenomena and then for the links between them, leading to an integrated, event-based model. The second goal is to present and make publicly available the machine-readable data and tools produced by the research project. The richness, quality and historical importance of the source materials--as well as the data sets to be generated from them--will make them excellent candidates for further analysis. The third goal is to develop and evaluate tools, techniques, and other materials to support training and policy making regarding improvised response to disaster. This will be accomplished through educational programs for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practitioners, and through the involvement of an international collaborator in the policy field.In accomplishing these goals, this project will develop, implement, and evaluate a multi-level, multi-disciplinary model of improvisation during emergency response. By synthesizing theory and analytic techniques from a wide variety of fields, this work will lead to knowledge at their intersection, thus addressing the need for cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of human response to disaster. The theoretical advances resulting from this research will be translated into implications for training and policy, and will benefit from the inclusion of an international perspective. Finally, this work will provide guidance on how data sources such as those used here may be incorporated into the design of tools to support society in planning for, managing, and learning from human responses to disaster.

AOC：应急中的即兴：将认知、行为和社会互动联系起来大型灾难--无论是由人为、技术还是自然原因引发的--需要社会为重大破坏制定计划并做出反应。作为有时影响深远变化的因素，灾害需要在多个层面上进行综合规划和应对：在社会层面上，灾害的复杂性需要通过沟通进行协调；在行为层面上，时间压力要求对应对活动做出快速决策；在认知层面上，不确定性和罕见性需要创造性思维。历史经验已经证明了即兴创作--在时间限制下执行的一系列创造性--在应对灾难中的重要性，以及即兴创作技能如何与计划执行技能相辅相成。即兴表演通常被概念化为认知、行为和社会互动的共同产物。这个项目是第一个大规模的研究，旨在调查应急反应中认知、行为和社会现象之间的即兴发挥。这项工作的三个主要目标预计将有助于提高对应急反应中即兴发挥的科学理解，从而为教育和政策倡议提供信息，以改进社会如何规划、应对和学习灾害。第一个目标是解释应急反应中即兴发挥的认知、行为和社会动力学。这将通过对美国两个重要灾难的综合多学科数据分析来实现：1995年俄克拉荷马城阿尔弗雷德·P·默拉联邦大楼(OKC)爆炸事件和2001年纽约世界贸易中心(WTC)袭击事件。为了与先前的研究保持连续性，研究问题首先针对单个现象，然后针对它们之间的联系，导致一个综合的、基于事件的模型。第二个目标是提出并向公众提供研究项目产生的机器可读数据和工具。来源材料的丰富性、质量和历史重要性--以及由此产生的数据集--将使它们成为进一步分析的极佳对象。第三个目标是开发和评估工具、技术和其他材料，以支持关于临时应对灾害的培训和政策制定。这将通过面向本科生和研究生以及实践者的教育计划以及通过政策领域的国际合作者的参与来实现。为了实现这些目标，该项目将开发、实施和评估一个多层次、多学科的应急响应模式。通过综合各种领域的理论和分析技术，这项工作将在它们的交叉点产生知识，从而解决研究人类对灾害的反应的跨学科方法的需要。这项研究产生的理论进展将转化为对培训和政策的影响，并将受益于纳入国际视角。最后，这项工作将就如何将此处使用的数据源纳入工具设计提供指导，以支持社会规划、管理和学习人类对灾害的反应。