Escaping the trap of ivory tower research is essential to successfully understand reality and develop solutions based on that understanding. In line with the goal of application oriented research conducted at the Chair for IS and SCM, Prof. Hellingrath is again co-chairing a track on practitioner centered research in crisis management and humanitarian logistics at the upcoming ISCRAM 2016 conference, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - May 22-25, 2016.

Researchers and practitioners alike are invited to share their experiences how practitioners and impacted communities actually conduct their response, operations, and logistics work, including stakeholder roles, strategies, practices, information usage, constraints, motivations, and environments. The primary goals of the offered track are to increase this understanding through practitioner case studies of current practices, effective ways of operating, and emerging technological solutions, and support Community Engagement in Research (CEnR), i.e., mixed-methods approaches examining technology use in real-world settings that embed citizens and larger social systems in the research process.

Traditional papers must be submitted online until Nov 20, 2015 through the ISCRAM conference system. Additionally, short paper and poster submissions are also encouraged, due Jan 29, 2016 (Dates subject to change, cf. ISCRAM website). Further details as well as the call for papers can be found on track page on the ISCRAM 2016 website.

Questions concerning the track, including potential paper submission questions, and press enquiries shall be directed to Adam Widera, M.A., who is the Managing Director of the Competence Center Crisis Management at the European Research Center for Information Systems ERCIS. Past results were published e.g. on the ISCRAM 2015 in Kristiansand/Norway, available online.

Weblinks:

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  ISCRAM website: http://www.iscram2016.nce.ufrj.br/index.php
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  Track website: http://www.iscram2016.nce.ufrj.br/community-engagement-practitioner-case...
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  Previous results @ ISCRAM 2015: http://iscram2015.uia.no/?page_id=1596

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