@inproceedings{f774065fc04f4aed8077c04c18333015,
title = "Crisis warning signs in mHealth for military veterans: a collaborative design approach",
abstract = "Crises range from global catastrophes to personal disasters. However, systematic inquiry on crises rarely employs a comparative approach to examine commonalities between these seemingly very different events. We argue here that individual psychosocial disasters can inform a broader discussion on crises. Our approach applies general crisis theory to a smartphone based psychosocial support system for US military veterans. We engaged in a process designed to explore how veteran peer-to-peer mentorship can be augmented with IS support to display potential early warning signs as first step toward preventative intervention for high risk behaviors. To gain a better understanding of how military veterans might benefit from such a system, this article focuses on a community collaborative design process. The co-design process used the Small Stories method, allowing important cultural characteristics of to emerge, illuminating considerations in IS design with military veterans, and highlighting how humans think about crisis events at the individual level.",
keywords = "veterans, psychological crisis, mHealth, peer support, collaborative design",
author = "Zeno Franco and Katinka Hooyer and Rizwana Rizia and Patwary, {A. B. M. Kowser} and Mathew Armstrong and Bryan Semaan and Craig Kuziemsky and Bob Curry and Ahamed, {Sheikh Iqbal}",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management",
publisher = "Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro",
editor = "Tapia, {Andrea H.} and Pedro Antunes and Ba{\~n}uls, {Victor A.} and Kathleen Moore and {de Albuquerque}, {Jo{\~a}o Porto}",
booktitle = "ISCRAM 2016",
note = "13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2016 ; Conference date: 22-05-2016 Through 25-05-2016",
}