Assessing the Feasibility of Systematizing Human-AI Teaming to Improve Community Resilience

The goal of this planning grant is to analyze existing human-AI teaming disaster data and involve civic partners in focus groups to better understand the attitudes and beliefs of CERT volunteers, emergency managers, key governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations. This project will develop deep knowledge of digital volunteer teams, how they work, how to motivate them, and how to have them support the objectives of emergency managers. Thus, we advance theory around volunteer teaming in the technology space and human-in-the-loop protocols. This project provides meaningful ways for more citizens to participate in disaster planning and response, and develops a training curriculum for CERT volunteers who work with social media data in an effort to build sustainable volunteer efforts.