Participation at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)Paper Emergency Management: Designing Situation Maps to support Rescue Forces during Flood Disasters!

6 January 2026, by Marten Borchers

Photo: Martin Semmann/UHH

This week, I presented our paper, Emergency Management: Designing Situation Maps to support Rescue Forces during Flood Disasters, on behalf of my co-authors Enrico Milutzki, Lisa Fetzer, Valeria Magdych, Eva Bittner, and Martin Semmann, at the ICIS – The International Conference on Information Systems, the flagship conference of the AIS community.

The paper is a result of the RESCUE-MATE Project, in which we, the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) of the Universität Hamburg, are participating, and which is funded by the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt. Our focus lies on the development and evaluation of new intelligent situation maps to support emergency management stakeholders and organizations in the city of Hamburg. In the paper, we present the results of a first design science research cycle, including the prototype and eight derived design principles.

We want to thank all supporters and experts who participated and contributed to this research. We look forward to the inclusion of further data and AI-based functions, as well as the cooperation in Hamburg and beyond.