Washington, DC, Thursday, 13 December 2007 -- The paper submission deadline for the 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management has been extended to January 6, 2008. Gary Klein and Ben Shneiderman will be keynote speakers at ISCRAM2008. The general theme of ISCRAM2008 is “Creating Advanced Systems for Inter-organizational Information Sharing and Collaboration”. For details check http://iscram.org/ .

The 5th ISCRAM conference will be held from May 4th to 7th, 2008 at the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., USA and the conference will be hosted by GWU’s Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM).

Gary Klein, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist of Klein Associates, a group he formed in 1978 to better understand how to improve decision making in individuals and teams. The Klein Associates Division is now part of Applied Research Associates, Inc. Dr. Klein is one of the founders of the field of Naturalistic Decision Making. His work on recognitional decision-making has influenced the design of new systems and interfaces, and decision training programs. He has extended his work on decision making to describe problem detection, option generation, sensemaking, planning and replanning. In order to perform research on decision-making in field settings, Dr. Klein and his colleagues have developed new methods of Cognitive Task Analysis.

Ben Shneiderman(http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/) at the University of Maryland. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM ) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.