arXiv:2608. 14651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective disaster risk communication is a foundational humanitarian challenge, yet current emergency infrastructure fails to meet the needs of individuals with access and functional needs, including hard-of-hearing individuals, pregnant women, mothers with toddlers, and elderly individuals with dementia.
By Anuridhi Gupta, Samara Mansoor, Hemant Purohit
arXiv:2602. 13452v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed for crisis preparedness and response, particularly for multilingual communication.
By Belu Ticona, Antonis Anastasopoulos
arXiv:2607. 18325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern safety-critical systems increasingly rely on human-robot interaction to reduce disaster risk and support decision-making during emergencies.
By Murali Indukuri, Mohammad Eskandari, Sree Nitya Kollu, Stephanie Lukin, Cynthia Matuszek
Crises alter both how people move and how they communicate. During emergencies such as wildfires and pandemics, changes in mobility patterns and online emotional discourse evolve jointly, yet they are typically studied in isolation.
arXiv:2607. 16582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In high-risk environments such as disaster response, situational awareness depends not only on detecting hazards but also on communicating them clearly to human operators.
By Mohammad Eskandari, Murali Krishna Varma Indukuri, Stephanie M. Lukin, Cynthia Matuszek
arXiv:2601. 22184v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent settings that require coordination without communication, from human-AI interaction to safety-critical scenarios.
By Ido Aharon, Emanuele La Malfa, Michael Wooldridge, Sarit Kraus
arXiv:2606. 06217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a disaster unfolds, responders must answer not only what is happening, but also why it is happening, what will happen next, and what to do now, often from noisy low-altitude UAV views and under tight on-site compute constraints.
By Tan Zhang, Quanyou Li, Lu Zhang, Jun Liu, Xiaofeng Zhu, Ping Hu
arXiv:2606. 31038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For virtual humans to appear believable, they must exhibit agency and spatial awareness while interacting with their environment in ways that reflect competence and intelligence.
By Stefano Calzolari, Rubens Montanha, Gabriel Schneider, Gustavo Wide, Paulo Knob, Francesco Strada, Andrea Bottino, Soraia Raupp Musse
arXiv:2602. 17394v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted networks are increasingly foreseen as a promising approach for emergency response, providing rapid, flexible, and resilient communications in environments where terrestrial infrastructure is degraded or unavailable.
By Nuno Saavedra, Pedro Ribeiro, Andr\'e Coelho, Rui Campos
arXiv:2607. 00218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are now proposed as runtime safety guards for embodied agents in homes and factories.
By Siddhant Panpatil, Arth Singh, Mijin Koo, Chaeyun Kim, Haon Park, Dasol Choi
arXiv:2606. 10380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world crisis intervention is inherently conversational, yet existing research largely focuses on static texts.
By Grace Byun, Abigail Lott, Rebecca Lipschutz, Sean T. Minton, Elizabeth A. Stinson, Jinho D. Choi
arXiv:2608. 08077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Space framework (ToS) assesses the spatial understanding of curiosity-driven Vision-Language Models (VLMs) under partial observability.
By Gabriele La Malfa, Nitay Alon, Emanuele La Malfa, Reuth Mirsky, Stefan Sarkadi