TY - GEN
T1 - Usability assessment of a humanitarian relief supplies matching system
AU - Fukumoto, Junya
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17K06591.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Material convergence is a typical phenomenon observed after a large scale natural disaster happens. Two fundamental causes of this convergence of materials are distributed donations by heterogeneous agents inside/outside the affected area and the lack of their coordination. The author proposed a matching system of relief supplies, and it is implemented on the world wide web. The social use of the matching system is to benefit society; however, in some cases, it may not be beneficial to each user. In this study, I conduct an economic experiment and investigate the conditions under which the usage of the matching system confers comparative advantages to its users.
AB - Material convergence is a typical phenomenon observed after a large scale natural disaster happens. Two fundamental causes of this convergence of materials are distributed donations by heterogeneous agents inside/outside the affected area and the lack of their coordination. The author proposed a matching system of relief supplies, and it is implemented on the world wide web. The social use of the matching system is to benefit society; however, in some cases, it may not be beneficial to each user. In this study, I conduct an economic experiment and investigate the conditions under which the usage of the matching system confers comparative advantages to its users.
KW - matching system
KW - material convergence
KW - transshipment problem
KW - usability assessment
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U2 - 10.1109/ICT-DM47966.2019.9032902
DO - 10.1109/ICT-DM47966.2019.9032902
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85083236089
T3 - 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, ICT-DM 2019
BT - 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, ICT-DM 2019
A2 - Hadjadj-Aoul, Yassine
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, ICT-DM 2019
Y2 - 18 December 2019 through 20 December 2019
ER -