Community response grid (CRG) for a university campus: Design requirements and implications

This paper describes the initial stages of the participatory design of a community-oriented emergency responsesystem for a university campus. After reviewing related work and the current University emergency response
system, this paper describes our participatory design process, discusses initial findings from a design requirement
survey and from our interactions with different stakeholders, and proposes a Web interface design for a community
response grid system. The prototyping of the system demonstrates the possibility of fostering a social-network-based
community participation in emergency response, and also identifies concerns raised by potential users and by the
professional responder community.