Senior researcher and data scientist in Center for Artificial Intelligence Research group, department of ICT, University of Agder, Norway.
Publications
Vimala Nunavath, Andreas Prinz, and Tina Comes, “Identifying first responders’ information needs: Supporting search and rescue operations for fire emergency response”, International Journal of Infor-mation Systems for Crisis Response and Management, December 2016, DOI:10.4018/IJIS-CRAM.2016010102 (URL: http://www.igi-global.com/article/identifying-first-responders-infor-mation-needs/175672).
Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “Data Sources Handling for Emergency Management: Sup-porting Information Availability and Accessibility for Emergency Responders”, in the 19th Interna-tional Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017.
Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “LifeRescue Software Prototype for Supporting Emergency Responders during Fire Emergency Response: A Usability and User Requirements Evaluation”, in the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017.
Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “Visualization of Exchanged Information with Dynamic Net-works: A case study of Indoor Fire Search and Rescue Operation”, in Proc.of 7th IEEE International Advance Computing Conference, Hyderabad, India, January 2017.
Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “LifeRescue: A Web Based Application for the Emergency Responders during Building Fire Emergency Management “, in The Third International Conference Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, Vienna, Austria, December 2016 (URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7857204/).
Vimala Nunavath, Andreas Prinz, Tina Comes and Jaziar Radianti, “Representing Fire Emergency Response Knowledge through a Domain Modelling Approach”, in Proc. of the NOKOBIT conference, Bergen, Norway, 28-30 November 2016 (URL: http://ojs.bibsys.no/index.php/Nokobit/arti-cle/view/326).
Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “Taking the Advantage of Smartphone Apps for Understand-ing Information Needs of Emergency Response Teams for Situational Awareness: Evidence from an Indoor Fire Game”, in Proc.of the 18th International Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Toronto, Canada, pp. 563-571, July 2016, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-39513-5_52 (URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-39513-5_52).
Vimala Nunavath, Andreas Prinz, and Tina Comes, “Qualitative and Quantitative Study on Vide-otaped Data for Fire Emergency Response”, in Proc.of International Conference on Leadership, In-novation and Entrepreneurship (ICLIE), Dubai, UAE, April 2016, DOI :10.1007/978-3-319-43434-6_13 (URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-43434-6_13).
Vimala Nunavath, Jaziar Radianti, Tina Comes, and Andreas Prinz, “The Impacts of ICT Support on Information Distribution, Task Assignment for Gaining Teams’ Situational Awareness in Search and Rescue Operations”, in Proc.of Second International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems, Trivandrum, India, pp. 443-456, December 2015, DOI:2015.10.1007/978-3-319-28658-7 (URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-28658-7_38).
Vimala Nunavath, Jaziar Radianti, Tina Comes, and Andreas Prinz, “Visualization of Information Flows and Exchanged Information: Evidence from an indoor fire game”, in Proc. 12th International Conference on ISCRAM, Kristiansand, Norway, May 2015 (URL: https://is-cram2015.uia.no/?p=1992).
Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “Reference architecture for emergency management opera-tions”, in Proc. 8th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 243-247, March 2015 (URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vimala_Nunavath/publica-tion/275880596_Reference_Architecture_For_Emergency_Management_Opera-tions/links/555c7df708ae8f66f3aecdc3.pdf).
Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “Norwegian Emergency Management Process by using Busi-ness Process Modelling Notation”, in Proc. 8th IADIS International Conference on Information Sys-tems, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 205- 210, March 2015 (URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publica-tion/282976171_NORWEGIAN_EMERGENCY_MANAGEMENT_PROCESS_BY_US-ING_BUSINESS_PROCESS_MODELING_NOTATION).
Parvaneh Sarshar, Vimala Nunavath, Jaziar Radianti, “A Study on the Usage of Smartphone Apps in Fire Scenarios – Comparison between GDACS mobile and SmartRescue Apps”, In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 469-474, 2015, Barcelona, Spain (URL: http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0005466304690474).
Parvaneh Sarshar, Vimala Nunavath, Jaziar Radianti, “On the Usability of Smartphone Apps in Emergencies: An HCI Analysis of GDACS mobile and SmartRescue Apps”, in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 2015 (URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20916-6_70).
TH Nguyen, Vimala Nunavath, and Andreas Prinz, “Big data metadata management in smart grids”, in the book chapter of Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments, 189-214, 2014. (URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-05029-4_8#page-1).