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Science
Vol. 315 no. 5814 p. 944
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139088
  • Policy Forum
PUBLIC HEALTH

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  1. Jennifer Preece*
  1. 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.

Summary

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

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