Jonas Landgren (PhD)

Research Manager
Public Safety Group
Viktoria Institute,
Horselgangen 4
SE-417 56 Gothenburg
Sweden

E-mail: landgren@viktoria.se

 


Have a look at my blog

 

Publications

Landgren, J (2007). Investigating the tension between information technology use and emergency response work. ECIS2007, s:t Gallen, Switzerland.

Landgren, J & Nulden, U.(2007). A Study of Emergency Response Work: Patterns of Mobile Phone Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2007 SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems CHI '2007. ACM Press

Landgren, J (2006). Evaluating the benefits of information technology use in time-critical work. IRIS29, Helsingor, Denmark.

Landgren, J (2006). Making Action Visible in Time-Critical Work. Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems CHI '2006. ACM Press

Landgren, J (2005).
Supporting fire crew sensemaking enroute to incidents. International Journal of Emergency Management. Vol2, No3. Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Landgren, J (2005). Using digital traces of action to support time-critical work. IRIS 28, Kristiansand, Norway.

Landgren, J (2005). Shared use of information technology in emergency response work.
Second International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) 18-20th April. Brussels, Belgium

 

Landgren, J & Nulden, U (2004). A Framework to plan and Review field studies. In Proceedings of IRIS28, Falkenberg, Sweden.


Landgren, J (2004).
Fire Crews at Work, Short paper presented at Participatory Design Conference 2004, Toronto, Canada.
 

Landgren, J (2004). Fire Crew enroute Sensemaking, In proceedings of International Workshop on Information systems for Crisis response and management, Brussels, Belgium.
 

Landgren, J (2003). Tooltime. In Proceedings of IRIS27, Helsinki, Finland.
 

 

 

 

Research Focus:

MOBILE IT-USE IN EMERGENCY AND CRISIS RESPONSE WORK

See my blog for recent updates

Sensemaking.
In daily small scale emergencies, fire crews must in order to make fast and efficient response, make sense of the accident location, elaborate potential contextual restrictions, improvise to solve unforeseen problems and make coordinated actions to control the dynamics of the accident. Improved access to location and accident information could potentially improve fire crew sensemaking. Findings from field studies have been used to inform the design of various prototypes. These prototypes have been evaluated in future workshops and field experiements. The result from this work has been communicated to local rescue services and various product suppliers.

Cross-Actor Collaboration. The fire crew is the operative unit physically executing the emergency intervention. In this work, they are highly depend on other actors such as command centre operators, police, medics, security guards and other professionals dispatched to the specific emergency. Cross actor information sharing is an attempt to improve communication and actions among the various actors and provide technology that connects the various organizations emergency management systems.

Artifact use in time-critical work. A fire crew is equipped with an extensive range of artifacts targeting almost any imaginable problem or situation. Some of these artifacts are specifically designed for the work practice while others are everyday digital appliances obtained from consumer as well as for professional use. Introducing innovative information technology use could potentially challenge the prevailing tool-perspective and shift the focus to a communication and collaboration perspective.

ISCRAM-COMMUNITY
Join the ISCRAM-community to learn more about information systems for crisis response and emergency management. Read about the current ongoing research and find out how you could benefit from and contribute to the design of information systems and technology to improve emergency management, incident response, intervention in large-scale crisis. The ISCRAM-community is conducting research on serveral organisational levels from a group of firemen, to the organisational level of emergency response, to national issues, and international needs of collaboration in case of disasters and crisis. Sign up and join the ISCRAM-community, NOW!

 

Teaching

As part of my academic work, I also administrate and teach on the course IT-infrastructure at the IT-university in Gothenburg.

I have also given guest lectures on the Software Engineering program.

Misc.

Member of the program committe for ISCRAM 2008.
(http://www.iscram.org)

Member of the program committe for ISCRAM 2007.


Member of the organizing committe of ISCRAM-Tiems
2006 Summerschool.

Member of the organizing committe of European Conference on Information systems (ECIS) 2006. Goteborg, Sweden.

Local coordinator of the Sweden-Italian Phd-student Workshop on Information Systems (SIWIS), side-event at ECIS2006. Goteborg, Sweden.