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Science 16 February 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5814, p. 944
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139088
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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
911.gov

Ben Shneiderman and Jennifer Preece

Web-based communication can provide better reporting on disasters, coordination of responses, dissemination of information, and social networking to deliver assistance.

B. Shneiderman was the founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, and J. Preece is professor and dean of the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

*E-mail: ben{at}cs.umd.edu or preece{at}umd.edu

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